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Summary: AN AWESOME CALCULUS TEXTBOOK
Review: (...)good book!!! Plain and simple and enough said. I basically learned calculus by myself with this book. As a matter of fact EVERY math book written by Larsen and Hostetler from you basic Algebra to the highest math possible are 100% top-notch quality math books. Great book ALL THE WAY!!!!! :)
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Summary: Had the earlier editon
Review: All I know that this is the BEST OF THE BEST books in Calculus around. I learned my algebra from one of their algebra books too. Larsen and his collegues just seem to have that special talent in writing EXCELLENT calculus textbooks that everyone can understand from. It is expensive but IT IS WORTH EVERY PENNY. This is the REAL CALCULUS TEXTBOOK. It is way better than that overrated piece of garbage calculus textbook written by that overrated author James Stewart You want a good calculus book? Larsen and Hostetler Calculus textbook is simply the best hands down. I strongly feel that this new editon is no different than the earlier editions that were of excellent quality
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Summary: Refer to other editions 0618141804
Review: Checkout the 7th edition without a CD. Slightly different listing. Copied below....
* Hardcover: 182 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 11.25 x 1.75 x 9.00
* Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company; 7th edition (July 1, 2001)
* ASIN: 0618141804
* In-Print Editions: Hardcover (7th Bk&Cdr) | Paperback (4th) | All Editions
* Average Customer Review: Based on 16 reviews. Write a review.
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: 857,204
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Summary: The best book of it's kind.
Review: Every concept and example is explained with just the right amount of words and visual aids. The author has talent. The talent is his ability to pass the relevant information straight to the center of your brain, and the ability to bind the whole subject together.
In comparison, Stewart's Calculus book is just a compilation of information. With each new edition, Stewart adds more footnotes and side notes. The footnotes and side notes really only serve as a bandage to prevent the information of his book from falling apart.
While Larson is presenting us with a complete and beautiful product, Stewart is scrambling to keep his product at par.
Larson's book is the best all purpose high school and undergraduate book of it's kind. The website of the book is great and holds interesting additional information.
Some cons. The book is big heavy and expensive. Some key precalculus reviews are missing in the main book, however, they are available on the book's website.
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Summary: Simply the Best!
Review: I can honestly say that this is the best textbook I have ever used in any subject whatsoever. I do not say this out of a love for Calculus, but out of an appreciation for how pedagogically sound this text is. All authors should strive for such clarity. As stated, there is no text, in my opinion, more suited towards use in any introductory Calculus series, but this text is also ideal for self-study. The theory is presented in crystal clear fashion, and then multiple examples are given in order of increasing complexity. Each chapter culminates with a series of well-chosen problems and odd-numbered problems have answers in the back. For self-study, the latter detail is of most importance, yet it doesn't end there! A companion guide is also available (by Heyd) that works out, in detail, many of the odd-numbered problems. The figures within the text are chosen well, so that they demonstrate the matter at hand. It is *NOT* the case that there are pictures just for the sake of pictures. Short biographical sketches of important mathematicians who developed parts of the calculus are included in the relevant chapters, which I found interesting to read even though it certainly was not assigned reading! "Career Interview(s)" in which a person who has a career in applied mathematics gives a brief description of what they do are also included at the end of many chapters. I have found the overall setup of the book exceptional in the order in which the chapters are presented and in the location of a multitude of important theorems and formulas that are in the front and back covers. I should also mention that at the end of many of the chapters, a reference is made to a journal article or two "for further reading". I found these excellent, as our library subscribed to these journals and they were indeed well-suited for anyone to read who had just completed the chapter at hand. These articles always had very interesting applications or simply inventive pure mathematics as their topics. As a student, I am lucky to have taken the initiative to even follow Larson's advice and look into one of these articles. I would urge anyone teaching from this book to perhaps assign some of those articles as out of class reading or talk about them in class if time permits. I used this text for my series of three four credit courses, Calculus I, II, and III, and I think that adopting this text to use in that series of courses was the best thing the Mathematics Department at my school has done. Do not be fooled into thinking this is a book that would be of little interest to junior-senior undergrads and 1st-2nd year graduates. I was amazed when I found out infinite series and vector analysis is sometimes considered "advanced" calculus, even though it is presented here with such clarity that it seems far from advanced. Cheers for Larson! (I refer to the fifth edition above)
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Summary: Good book but NOT for a math major
Review: I have to agree that larson's calculus is a very comprehensive calculus text. It includes a lot of material and applications. If you are going to selfstudy calculus, i have some advices:
1 Not every section is necessary. Some sections are mainly about applications in mechanical engineerings(actually, most applications). If you are not interested in ME, just skip them. 2 Don't go too fast. If you don't have time, just skip some sections of the end of each chapters. Especially at the end of the book. Chapter 14 is quite confusing. Read them slowly, understand piece by piece. If you are a math major, particularly pure math, this is not a book for you. You need a book that talks more about theory.
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Summary: An excellent, readable yet mathematically intensive text.
Review: I have used this text teaching Calc I & II in high school and community college ... I would recommend no other text.
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Summary: Best of All
Review: I saw many calculus books but this one is the best although the price is ridiculus (Even a used one is like 100 bucks). This book has a nice set of problems starting from easy ones and going to more complex. The examples are clearly stated and easy to understand. The thing I liked best about this book is that at the beginning of each chapter, there is a page describing the real world application of the concepts to be studied in the chapter. This makes it interesting to do the problems as we are relating those to real life situations.
Overall this book will be fun to learn.
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Summary: Very good Calculus Textbook
Review: I used this book for my second quarter of Calculus and a different book for the first. This book was much easier to understand and learn from. The examples are clear and do a great job of explaining the process. The author's do not go into overly complicated and irrelevant material. This is much better than any other math textbook that I have attempted to learn from. I usually hate math classes, but this book made the material understandable.
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Summary: Calculus
Review: I've worked with several calculus books over many years and this is the CLEAREST and most staightforward of all. It makes the concepts seem so obvious and simple, where many other books make them appear arcane and mysterious (even to me, and I love this stuff.) It's a joy to read and work with.
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