Advanced Calculus, 3rd Edition

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Summary: Know Everything Before You Buy This
Review: Be sure you understand all the elementary calculus principles backwards and forwards, all the properities of logs and natural logarithms, all the trigometric identies and properties, differential equations, and have a strong math background. This book lacks explaination. It statements are very broad and followed by very few select examples that are partially worked out. Be sure to understand the vocabulary of mathmatics. I found the concepts of advanced calculus rather easy but the way the books expresses the material makes the course first appear impossible. Each problem should take no longer than 10 minutes tops. Some students in the class spent hours for several nights in a row working 1 or 2 problems. This is a waste of time.

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Summary: Wonderfully Masterful
Review: I am no expert in the area of Mathematical Analysis, but I am an avid reader of any book that pertains the subject. I found this book in my schools mathematics lounge and could not resist reading it from cover to cover. This book is of the quality of such authors as Buck, Widder, Courant, and Rudin. As another reviewer has noted, this book is definitely worth every penny. It is not dry or to pedantic as some of the other afore mentioned authors, yet it is not simple and lacking in content. Of course like any quality Advanced Calculus book it requires the reader to have mathematical maturity as well as patience and the drive to self-explore the concepts. If one cannot follow simple examples and from those examples formulate their own, they may want to review the very basics of mathematics or consider a different major. I would highly recommend this book to advanced undergraduates or beginning gradutes students as a reference book or for self study.

Rating:
Summary: Wonderfully Masterful
Review: I am no expert in the area of Mathematical Analysis, but I am an avid reader of any book that pertains the subject. I found this book in my schools mathematics lounge and could not resist reading it from cover to cover. This book is of the quality of such authors as Buck, Widder, Courant, and Rudin. As another reviewer has noted, this book is definitely worth every penny. It is not dry or to pedantic as some of the other afore mentioned authors, yet it is not simple and lacking in content. Of course like any quality Advanced Calculus book it requires the reader to have mathematical maturity as well as patience and the drive to self-explore the concepts. If one cannot follow simple examples and from those examples formulate their own, they may want to review the very basics of mathematics or consider a different major. I would highly recommend this book to advanced undergraduates or beginning gradutes students as a reference book or for self study.

Rating:
Summary: Worth every penny
Review: This is the advanced calculus text I used at University of Washington while getting my BS in mathematics. I loved it then, and I've just purchased another copy to use for review. It's extremely well written. If you're looking for a good second year calculus text, this one's it.

Rating:
Summary: Worth every penny
Review: This is the advanced calculus text I used at University of Washington while getting my BS in mathematics. I loved it then, and I've just purchased another copy to use for review. It's extremely well written. If you're looking for a good second year calculus text, this one's it.