To put it another way: Greenâs theorem ?ts comfortably; Stokesâ and Gaussâ do not. Multivariable calculusnaturallysplits intothreeparts:(1)severalfunctionsofonevariable,(2)one function of several variables, and (3) several functions of several variables. The ?rst two are well-developed in Calculus III, but the third is really too large and varied to be treated satisfactorily in the time remaining at the end of a semester. A half-century ago, advanced calculus was a well-de?ned subject at the core of the undergraduate mathematics curriulum. In fact, a bifurcation occurred. The latter course is intended for everyone who has had a year-long introduction to calculus; it often has a name like Calculus III. In my experience, though, it does not manage to accomplish what the old advancedcalculus course did. Advanced calculus did not, in the process, become less important, but its role in the curriculum changed. Over time, certain aspects of the course came to be seen as more signi?cantâthose seen as giving a rigorous foundation to calculusâand they - came the basis for a new course, an introduction to real analysis, that eventually supplanted advanced calculus in the core. In one direction we got c- culus on n-manifolds, a course beyond the practical reach of many undergraduates; in the other, we got calculus in two and three dimensions but still with the theorems of Stokes and Gauss as the goal. The classic texts of Taylor [19], Buck [1], Widder [21], and Kaplan [9], for example, show some of the ways it was approached.
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