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Summary: Horrid!!
Review: The book is a disaster. I had to suffer with it for 2 semesters. None of the other students in my Calc I and Calc II courses got anything from it either, as far as I can tell. I had to scramble and seek information from other calc books in order to understand what differentiation and integration was all about. The text in no way prepares one for the exercises. There's no connection between the text and the exercises. In the exercises there appear some inane, open-ended questions that seem to be trying to make some unfathomable point. This is not a book anyone can learn from. I would strongly advise any student who must use this book as their course textbook to CHANGE COLLEGES. There are many great calculus books out there, on all levels. For those who prefer a 'calculus reform' approach, I would recommend Calculus Lite, by Frank Morgan. For the more traditional approach, I got a lot out of Anton's classic.
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Summary: It is difficult to follow
Review: The book very good problems to work on throughout the book. But, big but it has very poor explaination that asuume that you do have some previous knowledge of the subject. The examples they do in the book are often hard to follow because many steps are skipped in the solving equations
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Summary: Fitting cover
Review: The cover is fitting, crash course into calculus. The book doesn't go through enough examples, what is there is poorly explained. As noted below, the corresponding answer guide doesn't even include all odds. Very glad only used at where I went to community college and the 4-year I now attend uses the vastly better James Stewart book.
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Summary: What a terrible book
Review: This book is horrible. The examples don't guide you for all of the problems and the explanations aren't very good either. The Student Solutions Manual doesn't have every odd answer.. and coincidentally the ones missing are the ones you can't understand!! Definitely don't recommend it.
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Summary: My facorite calculus book
Review: This book is very organized compared with other calculus textbook. The explanation is simple and aculate. All prooives are well written and no theoritical mistake. Most textbooks I know have many mistakes or skipping of important facts to simplify the solutions. Many problems are related to real life.
I love that kind of problems.
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Summary: Good.
Review: This book teaches concepts instead of having the student "copy" example problems. I found it an interesting book to learn from.
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Summary: Clear, precise, detailed. I learned a lot from this book!
Review: This book was used for my Fall 2002 Calculus III (multivariable) class. We used the last section of the book, chapters 12-19. I was able to review old concepts when needed from the earlier chapters, which were presented nicely.I have noticed that a lot of other reviewers here have mixed feelings about this text. It would help if they stated their background which should be taken into account. I am a junior computer science/mathematics double major who does well in both subjects and is not afraid of reading through a long proof or spending time on advanced problems. Thus, my perspective is that of an advanced student. I noticed that the other students in my class were not all mathematics majors and there were a lot of physics/chemistry majors in the group. These people are probably learning from a pragmatic perspective and could probably care less about proofs, so as long as they pass they are happy. The chapters from the book that I read in detail (12-19) I found to be full of great illustrations and examples and were presented in a clear logical manner without superfluous material/examples. Starting with the basic tools needed for multivariable calculus (multivariable functions, vector algebra), I found myself grasping topics and ideas very quickly (I aced the course). The exercises were not too difficult and could be solved in a few minutes using the information from the section. The problems require more time and sometimes ideas from other sections/subjects, but none are too difficult. Mostly every topic was given a algebraic and geometric explaination. The book provides a great introduction for beginners while the scope of topics covered appeals to advanced students as well. In comparison to my old calculus text (Stewart) I found this book to have a lot more material in general that wasn't in Stewart, such as trig sub and fourier series. There is also a chapter on differential equations, which I should probably read before my class starts next semester ;D . In summary, this review is from the perspective of a young mathematician, and I felt that it was perfect for me to learn from. I liked it enough to keep it. If you are in the same category you will find this to be a wonderful text. It is hard to say whether or not it should be recommended for beginners/non-math students, since I am not one, but from the other reviews on here it seems like some people have had trouble. If that's the case you might want to find a supplement (Standard Deviant's or Cliff's Notes). Learning calculus for the non-math student is not easy, so the best way is to just work harder.
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Summary: Not enough examples and hard to learn from.
Review: This Calculus text does not give enough solved examples and is quite difficult for the student to learn from. The answers to the problems for each chapter are not all in the back of the book. Usually math texts print the answers to the odd problems, this book prints only a few of the odd numbered answers, and then they try to sell you a separate student answer book. This text is also way overpriced for a paperback.
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Summary: This Book Is a Waste of Paper
Review: This is a horribly designed book, with vague explanations and problems at the extremes: 30 seconds to solve *or* 20 minutes. In my AP Calculus BC class, our teacher apologized to us a week into the course for having to buy the book. For the remainder of the year, we ended up using worksheets and other materials. I would give it 0 stars if it were possible.
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Summary: Terrible
Review: This is an absolutely terrible textbook. Hardly any explanations in any of the sections for problem solving. And the homework problems rarely relate directly to the material in the preceding section. The student solutions manual has only every fifth problem and, not unexpected from the attitude of the authors, none of the difficult homework problems are among those that are solved anywhere.
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