Calculus of a Single Variable

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Summary: Advanced Calculus... for dummies
Review: I attended the Air Force Academy Preparatory School, and this book was issued to me. It has got to be the most helpful, easily understood, and well written calculus books ever to find its way to a school. The illustrations help visual learners to "see" what a formula looks like in three dimensions in latter chapters, and the practice sets go in order of necessity of learning (i.e. - early problems develop skills necessary to answer later problems, with no monotonous repetition of the same concepts as in most math books). It also has reference pages for basic formulas, so it becomes an invaluable tool for later calculus classes.

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Summary: The Best of the Best
Review: I have taught calculus for over 20 years, from about half a dozen books: Thomas, Swokowski, Anton, Stewart, and others. Two years ago our university adopted the 6th Edition of Larson. As a pedagodical tool, this text is head and shoulders about all the others. The text uses abundand graphics, a clear design, concise writing, thoughtful examples, and carefully crafted exercises to make calculus accessible to students. I have never had so many students volunteer compliments about a text. This text is simply the "best of the best."

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Summary: Don't do it alone (revised)
Review: Sorry the book I meant to post was "3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus".

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Summary: Great Book
Review: The concepts in this book are very difficult to grasp. It provides easy examples, which do not help in the more difficult problems. The book does not explain concepts, but rather gives you formulas to plug numbers into. Hopefully you will have a good teacher to explain the concepts.

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Summary: My advice - don't do it alone.
Review: This book is good because it give you clear (easy) examples of the material it is explaining. The practice problems are also very good because they start off from the most basic then progress to advanced. This books has a lot of practical real world problems. Some of the material can be difficult at times, that's why I suggest you purchase "3000 Solved Problems in Precalculus (Schaums Solved Problems Series)" in addition to this book. The Solved Problems Series helps when you're studying quick examples just before the test.

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Summary: average textbook
Review: This is your average math textbook. I haven't had any problems with it. It gives pretty good examples and explanations for each section.

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Summary: average textbook
Review: This is your average math textbook. I haven't had any problems with it. It gives pretty good examples and explanations for each section.