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Summary: A good book for a self learner
Review: Initially I did not like this book because I felt it was a bit too wordy. But then the wordiness is very helpful for a self learner. The examples and exercises are good too.The pace is neither too fast nor too slow. And it offers interesting websites articles for further studies. The graphs, pictures and colors are the best among all math books.
The only thing, but I can live with it, I did not like it is that the book is very heavy. Well, it really worths the money.
I hope more math books can be written and published so nicely. Studying math should not be just formulars and symbols. Colors and pictures are not just for high school, they should be there for serious math students and mathematicians too.
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Summary: Good but problems were too easy
Review: Not bad at all! I found the book's explanations pretty easy to understand. The CD I really did not use. Some of you probably got more use out of it. But the text and diagrams are well enough done that I found the CD unnecessary. The only criticism is that perhaps some of the problems could have been harder/more challenging.
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Summary: The truth about this book
Review: This book does not explain the process of solving a caculus problem. They give you a theorem, never show you how it is solved, and expect you to learn from it. I would never recommend this to any of my students.
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Summary: Excellent book for those who want to learn
Review: This book is great. It has graphs on almost every single page (very helpful for the complex 3D graphs in multivariable Calculus, also known as Calc III) which keep alowing you to visualize the concepts. Proofs are presented for almost every theorem, and there is a very complete integration table in the back of the book. Primers for Algebra, Trig, and complex numbers are also provided for those who did not have a very strong background in these areas. The examples are full of real-life problems and word problems.
Overall, I rate this book with an A+. If you want to learn Calculus, and have good self study habits, this book is the one for you.
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Summary: Tasty Calculus
Review: This calculus textbook extends to cover three years of calculus, providing valuable and pertinent information to real life situations. The text completely covers the four parts of calculus: limits, derivatives, integrals, and integrals. The book contains fourteen chapters of information, covering topics from differentiation to conics to vector analysis. Each section contains an introduction, a lesson demonstrating how to perform an operation or use an equation, illustrations and diagrams, and a number of exercises to practice what you have learned. The book also contains an appendix, summarizing the most important information in the book. It goes over the important lesson, and once again contains practice exercises. The answers to all of the odd-numbered problems of the exercises are contained in the back of the book. Overall, this textbook contains a plethora of luscious information, and I would highly recommend it to any calculus student or teacher.
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Summary: Calculus With Analytic Geometry
Review: This is an excellent book with lots of examples. First a concept is introduced, then an example given, and then the student can work problems relating to the section to reinforce the concepts presented. Easy to read, and nice progression of topics.
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Summary: The Best Calculus Book
Review: This is the best Calculus book, or for that matter, one of the best text books I have ever studied. I transfered colleges and have had the opportunity to see other Calc books. This book (with the solution manual) explains the problems thoroghly and each problem section starts with the very easy, and the gradually moves into the challenging. It also works in real world applications to make your study of the subject much more interesting. I give the book an A+.
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Summary: A practical approach to learning calculus
Review: This is the only book I recommend to someone learning calc for the first time. Larson's approach is practical, logical, thorough, and most importantly, CLEAR!!!!
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Summary: Consistent Textbook
Review: This text is much more clear than Thomas's Calculus, because of examples that take you through the important steps of the problems. Sometimes a step will be left out in the example, but usually it's something from trig or pre-calc. The use of graphics in the examples are very helpful as well; the important theorems are boxed/highlighted, as are useful tips to solving the problems. The exercise problems at the end of each section are never huge surprises. As for their difficulty, they tend to start out easy and end with the more challenging word problems. When I was confused or frustrated, it helped to go back and re-read the examples. The Thomas text's examples were extremely difficult (for us non-MIT math students) and unrelated/inconsistent with the exercises. I'd say that this book made calculus less scary and much more managable. I still had to study really hard to ace the class, but at least it wasn't because the book was overly confusing.
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