Master Textbook List
Information on textbooks for all Undergraduate Mathematics courses at the New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses of Rutgers for the current semester is collected here.
Individual course pages may have additional information.
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ISBN numbers issued before 2007 have 10 digits; those issued since 2007 have 13 digits. Some books published before 2007 can be identified by ISBN numbers in either format.
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Information on textbooks for all Undergraduate Mathematics courses at the New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses of Rutgers for the current semester is collected here. Individual course pages may have additional information.
Fall 2017
| FALL 2017 TEXT BOOK LIST | ||||||
| CRS | TITLE | AUTHOR | PUBLISHER | ISBN | ED | YR |
| 001 | Basic College Mathematics | Tobey and Slater | Prentice Hall | 978-1256579571 | custom | |
| 025 | Understanding Elementary Algebra | Goodman & Hirsch | Cengage | 978-1337033671 | 6E | 2006 |
| SSM | Understanding Elem. Alg. With Geom. (not required) | 978-0534999780 | ||||
| 026 | Understanding Intermediate Algebra | Goodman & Hirsch | Cengage | 978-1337035453 | 6E | 2006 |
| SSM | Understanding Intermediate Algebra (not required) | 978-0534421700 | ||||
| 103 | NO TEXTBOOK | |||||
| 104 | Finite Mathematics: An Applied Approach | Michael Sullivan | Wiley | 978-0-470-95692-2 | Cus | 2011 |
| 106 | The Mathematics of Money | Timothy Biehler | Xanedu Publ. | 978-1506695914 | 3rd | 2013 |
| http://www.xanedu.com/higher-education/educators/custom-books-catalog/the-mathematics-of-money-3rd-edition | ||||||
| 107 | Mathematics for Elementary Teachers with Activities | Sybilla Beckmann | Pearson | 978-0321825728 | 4E | 2012 |
| 111 | Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus w/ Enhanced WebAssign | Stewart | Cengage | 978-1305743847 | 7th-custom | 2015 |
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| SSM | Optional: Student Solution Manual | Stewart | Cengage | 978-1305253612 | 7th-custom | 2015 |
| 112 | Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus w/ Enhanced WebAssign | Stewart | Cengage | 978-1305743847 | 7th-custom | 2015 |
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| SSM | Optional: Student Solution Manual | Stewart | Cengage | 978-1305253612 | 7th-custom | 2015 |
| 115 | Precalculus: Mathematics for Calculus w/ Enhanced WebAssign | Stewart | Cengage | 978-1305743847 | 7th-custom | 2015 |
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| SSM | Optional: Student Solution Manual | Stewart | Cengage | 978-1305253612 | 7th-custom | 2015 |
| 135 | Calculus I Special Edition (book plus WebAssign) | Smith/Strauss/Toda | Kendall Hunt | 9781524908102 | 6th-custom | 2014 |
| Calculus 1 Special edition – vitalsource ebook plus webassign | 9781524910716 | |||||
| 136 | Calculus 2 Special Edition | Smith/Strauss/Toda | Kendall Hunt | 9781524908119 | 6th-custom | 2014 |
| Calculus 2 Special edition – vitalsource ebook plus webassign | 9781524910723 | |||||
| 151 | Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Third edition plus WebAssign | Rogawski & Adams | Macmillan | 978-1319048532 | ||
| Hardcover custom 3rd edition and WebAssign premium access | ||||||
| code (for the duration of the 3rd edition) | ||||||
| OR | E-book custom 3rd edition and WebAssign premium access | Rogawski & Adams | Macmillan | 978-1319049119 | ||
| code (for the duration of the 3rd edition) | ||||||
| 152 | Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Third edition plus WebAssign | Rogawski & Adams | Macmillan | 978-1319048532 | ||
| Hardcover custom 3rd edition and WebAssign premium access | ||||||
| code (for the duration of the 3rd edition) | ||||||
| OR | E-book custom 3rd edition and WebAssign premium access | Rogawski & Adams | Macmillan | 978-1319049119 | ||
| code (for the duration of the 3rd edition) | ||||||
| 192:H1 | Calculus Deconstructed: A Second Course in First-Year Calculus | Zbigniew Nitecki | MAA | 978-0883857564 | 2010 | |
| 244 | Elementary Differential Equations - looseleaf version with e-text version of the book | Boyce & DiPrima | Wiley | 9781119447399 | 11th | 2017 |
| E-text by itself | 9781119381655 | 11th | 2017 | |||
| 244H | Elementary Differential Equations - looseleaf version with e-text version of the book | Boyce & DiPrima | Wiley | 9781119447399 | 11th | 2017 |
| E-text by itself | 9781119381655 | 11th | 2017 | |||
| 250 | Elementary Linear Algebra | Spence, Insel & Friedberg | Prentice Hall | 9780134689470 | Classic | 2017 |
| 251 | Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Third edition plus WebAssign | Rogawski & Adams | Macmillan | 978-1319048532 | ||
| Hardcover custom 3rd edition and WebAssign premium access | ||||||
| code (for the duration of the 3rd edition) | ||||||
| OR | E-book custom 3rd edition and WebAssign premium access | Rogawski & Adams | Macmillan | 978-1319049119 | ||
| code (for the duration of the 3rd edition) | ||||||
| 252 | Differential Equations with DE Tools Printed Access Card | Blanchard | Cengage | 978-1133109037 | 4th | 2012 |
| Differential Equations (text only) | 978-0495561989 | 4th | 2012 | |||
| BOTH versions acceptable | ||||||
| SSM | Differential Equations | 978-0495826729 | ||||
| 285 | The Theory of Interest | S. Kellison | McGraw-Hill | 978-0073382449 | 3rd | 2008 |
| 291H | NO TEXTBOOK | |||||
| 300 | A Transition to Advanced Mathematics | Smith/Eggen/St. Andre | Cengage | 978-1285463261 | 8th | 2015 |
| also available online: https://www.vitalsource.com/ | ||||||
| 300H | NO TEXTBOOK - ONLINE MATERIALS | |||||
| 311 | Introduction to Analysis | Gaughan | AMS | 978-0-8218-4787-9 | 5th | 2009 |
| 311H | Understanding Analysis | Stephen Abbott | Springer | 978-1493927111 | 2nd | 2015 |
| Electronic Version available Rutgers University Library | ||||||
| 321 | Mathematical Models | Haberman | SIAM | 978-0898714081 | 1st | 1998 |
| 325 | Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics | J.S. Bell | Cambridge | 978-0521523387 | 2nd | 2004 |
| 336 | NO TEXTBOOK (online notes) | |||||
| 350 | Linear Algebra | Friedberg/Insel/Spence | Prentice Hall | 978-0130084514 | 4th | 2003 |
| 350H | Linear Algebra | Friedberg/Insel/Spence | Prentice Hall | 978-0130084514 | 4th | 2003 |
| 351 | Abstract Algebra: An Introduction | Hungerford | Cengage | 978-1111569624 | 3rd | 2011 |
| 354 | Elem. Linear Programming w/ Appl. | Kolman | Academic Press | 978-0124179103 | 2nd | 1995 |
| 356 | Elementary Number Theory & Its Application | Rosen | Prentice Hall | 978-0321500311 | 6th | 2011 |
| 361 | Elements of Set Theory | Enderton | Academic Press | 978-0122384400 | 1st | 1977 |
| 373 | Numerical Analysis | Burden & Faires | Cengage | 978-1305253667 | 10th | 2015 |
| 411H | Principles of Mathematical Analysis | Rudin | McGraw Hill | 978-0070542358 | 3rd | 2007 |
| 421 | Advanced Engineering Mathematics | Zill & Wright | Jones & Bartlett | 978-1449691721 | 5th | 2012 |
| 423 | Applied Partial Differential Equations | J. David Logan | Springer | 978-3319124926 | 3rd | 2015 |
| 428 | A First Course in Graph Theory | Zhang/Chartbrand | Dover | 978-0486483689 | 2012 | |
| 435 | Geometry | Brannan | Cambridge | 978-1107647831 | 2nd | 2012 |
| 436 | A History of Mathematics | Katz | Pearson | 978-0321387004 | 3rd | 2008 |
| 441 | Topology | Munkres | Prentice Hall | 978-0131816299 | 2nd | 2000 |
| 451H | Algebra | Artin | Prentice Hall | 978-0132413770 | 2nd | 2011 |
| 454 | Introductory Combinatorics | Richard Brualdi | Prentice Hall | 978-0134689616 | Classic | 2017 |
| An Invitation to Discrete Mathematics | Matousek/Nesetril | Oxford Univ. Press | 978-0198570424 | 2nd | 2008 | |
| 477 | A First Course in Probability | Ross | Prentice Hall | 978-0321794772 | 9th | 2012 |
| 478 | Intro. To Probability Models (ANY EDITION CAN BE USED) | Ross | Academic Press | 978-0124079489 | 11th | 2014 |
| 481 | Mathematical Statistics w/ applications | Freund | Prentice Hall | 978-0321807090 | 8th | 2012 |
| 485 | The Mathematics of Finance: Modeling and Hedging | Stampfli & Goodman | AMS | 9780821847930 | 2009 | |
| 486 | Actuarial Mathematics for Life Contingent Risks | Dickson, Hardy & Waters | Cambridge | 978-1107044074 | 2nd | 2013 |
| 491 | NO TEXTBOOK | |||||
| 493 | NO TEXTBOOK | |||||
| 496 | NO TEXTBOOK | |||||
| 497 | NO TEXTBOOK | |||||