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Summary: Makes calc easy
Review: Seriously, calculus is seen as a hard topic by most people, but the ease of use for this book has enabled me to get straight A's in my calculus 1, 2 and 3 sequence here at the University of Florida. Thanks Stew!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: The book was exactly as described and arrived promptly. I would use A1 Books again.
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Summary: Not bad...but not great.
Review: The explanations are pretty clear, but I find some of the examples too easy. I think harder examples would be more helpful to students, especially in the multivariable chapters. The 4th edition has some errors (ex switching sinh x and cosh x definitions). Also it is much heavier than the 3rd edition, be careful when picking it up. Ultimately you cannot rely totally on this book to ace a class (well it depends on the prof) as many profs vary on teaching styles and exams. Some profs center on proofs while the text only emphasizes calculations for some sections (ex single integrals and some parts of multivariable)
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Summary: Stewart
Review: This book is great in explaining most theorems with concise and clear graphs/explanations. In my class we use the textbook by Tom Apostol, which even if it could be considered more "pure" and "theoretical," it's mostly a bunch of indecifrable babble if not supplemented by a great teacher, as it unfortunately is in my case. Thus I use Stewart's book as a dictionary to help me on my own, forced self-instruction and i find it to work well. Once again, a great book.
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Summary: Great Introduction to Calculus
Review: This book is perfect for anybody who wants to learn calculus from scratch. Especially if you are the kind of person who definately requires proofs for everything before you believe in it. It includes lots of rigourous and clear proofs for almost all the theorems. There are only a very few theorems not proven in here, which you will have to find in a more advanced book.It also makes an amazing reference book whenever you are doing other work. But beware, there are quite a bunch of typos, so don't take every single formula in it as definite unless you've double checked it yourself.
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Summary: Excellent book, well worth the price.
Review: This book is very easy to follow, well-illustrated, and has lots of examples and practice problems. This was the required text for the calculus I & II classes I took, but I also referred to the book a lot in calculus III (the required text was Vector Calculus by Thomas Barr). I did as many problems as I could from this book, and it helped me understand the materials better.
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Summary: Straight A's!
Review: This book is wonderful. The examples are very precise and thorough. It seems common for textbooks to have a few errors, in Stewart's I found none. Which is great considering its size. It has a nice balance between easy and difficult problems making Calculus easier to gradually master. Historical tidbits (and color) makes the book more interesting and easy on the eyes. This is my favorite math book!
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Summary: below average
Review: This book was a required text for the Vector Calculus course. The style and content are fine in the first chapters (Ch. 12) until I needed an alternative viewpoint. I was amazed how straightforward was the material which I couldn't understand from Stewart's book. The author rambles from one point to another, intersperses easy topic with advanced instead of building on what has already been explained. Moreover, in many cases he just gives a senseless definition and only after several pages (sometimes chapters) illustrates the essence of the principle and its application to the real world. Despite the obvious drawbacks, the book has two pluses: accurate (solvable) exercises and good intros to each chapter. Nevertheless, it is still hard to get used to applying the topics covered after a single reading, so the former positive moment doesn't help much. If you want an intuitive approach to calculus, get Thomas/Finney's book Calculus and Analytic Geometry (I used 1990's edition).
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Summary: A very usefull guide in learning calculus
Review: This is a great book. Every single theme is treated in deep and the number of examples and exercices is huge. I would recomend this text for every single beginner.
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Summary: The Exercise Sets Are Good
Review: This is about Stewart's Calculus, 3rd Edition that I am using.
The concepts and presentations are okay, overall. What I love
best are the exercise sets. For example, only Stewart's Calculus
has exercises to try out for the fun and joy of exploring. In
Chapter 3.4, Derivatives Of Logaritmic Funtions (Early Transc
edition), page 221, we have something like (written in the
Maple notations here): Differentiate the functions ....
(34) y = x^x (35) y = x^(sin(x)) (36) y = (sin(x))^x
(37) y = x^(e^(x)) (38) y = x^(1/x) (44) y = x^(x^x)
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