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Summary: Not a real calculus book
Review: "Thomas and Finney is remarkably easy to read." I agree. It's easy to read because there is not much of substance there. It's basically a recipe cookbook. The authors are not mathematicians and don't truly understand some of the more advanced concepts (in the last parts of the book.) The problems are not challenging, and do not lead to any new insights. For a book with great problems and insightful discussions of the key concepts, I recommend Swokowski's Calculus. Yet it is a decent text for what it is intended to do, which is to teach engineers. That's why the two stars.
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Summary: Extraordinary Text
Review: I always try to find 'good'textbooks like this one.I highly recommended to anyone taking calculus and related courses.This is user-friendly, self-study text book on differential and integral calculus.Someone said it merely hones the technical skill,it would be true for some extent.But I am sure by using this book you'll mastered the techniques and applications of a great branch of mathematics. I would also highly recommened to high school and colleges to use this book.I already used it to learn calculus myself and it made a great help.I am now studying electrical engineering and still using it.People are saying calculus is hard to grasp but I thought they haven't try this text. Finally if Issac Newton see this book,I am pretty sure that he will be amazed by seeing textbook which he invented the subject himself but never presented in those beautiful and elgant form.This text is the bible of calculus.
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Summary: This is the best
Review: I recall seeing this book in my living room when I was seven or eight. I'd pull it off the shelf, open to chapter one, look at the word "limit" and feel my mind go blank.
Well, six years later, I took AP Calculus AB and I made a five on the test. Many factors went in to that. This is one of them.
This book feels very comfortable to read. The margins are very wide and there is a good space between the examples and the text.
Professors Finney and Thomas wrote so clearly. Precise and concise. Whenever I didn't understand what was going on in my AP class, this helped to clarify it better.
There are ample problems for you to practice and apply what you've learned.
It's a shame that this isn't really sold anymore. This is the best. If you can get a copy of this, keep it. So good.
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Summary: Among the best
Review: If students could choose their textbooks, this is the one they would choose. I took Multivariable Calculus using the James Stewart text "Multivariable Calculus Concepts and Contexts" and found it difficult. I purchased this book as a supplement. The two books develop the concepts in parallel and you can easily go back and forth between the two for better understanding. The Finney/Thomas book is much easier to follow and you can teach yourself Calculus with it. Unfortunately, there is not much incentive for publishers to continue printing old textbooks (there are too many used copies circulating); so, this one is probably a dinosaur.
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Summary: PLEASE SEEK 7 ~8th Edition, excellent book ever i have seen
Review: The great book! i had falled in love with calculus due to this book! very comprehensive and easy. but lack some higher theory; it's bliss's theory. the 9th EDITION OMITTED Euler Equation WHICH IS very IMPORTATNT in ELECTRICITY.
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Summary: I hope all books would be like this one
Review: This book serves both as an introduction and a valuable reference.It invests your time and effort in learning and permits you a vicinity of your own .
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Summary: Hmmm..2.55 stars only!
Review: This book, in my opinion, is not a very good book especially if you are the kind who enjoys an intellectual challenge. But it takes up a hell of a lot of time making you work through silly repetitive exercises and never ever giving you a challenging problem!! And doesnt give you any sort of "insight" into calculus... In short its like the "The Ultimate Calculus Cookbook!" But cookbooks
dont really increase your math ability and may even suppress it! But theres another side to the story.. if you are kind who is interested in just knowing the recipies and how to apply them( engineering students)...then this must THE BEST BOOK you can find. And this can also be very helpful if you find calculus "hard"!! BUT LEMME WARN YOU AGAIN IF YOU USE UR BRAINS A LOT DONT GO FOR THIS BOOK.. U'LL SOON STAR GETTING DAMN BORED!!
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Summary: A fine Calculus Textbook
Review: This is perhaps one of the finest high-school Calculus textbooks in existance. The first eight chapters of Thomas-Finney deal with calculus of functions of a single variable, going through what is commonly known as BC calculus. In addition to covering the essential topics of differentiation and integration, Thomas-Finney pays ample attention to the applications of the two. What results is a lucid text full of examples that ground calculus in the real world. The second half of Thomas-Finney is devoted mainly to three-dimensional analytic geometry, multivariate calculus, and finally vector calculus. Partial derivitives, conic sections, vector-valued functions, and multiple integrals are just some of the topics covered in the second half. Here too, the book devotes ample time to examples and applications. The presentation of advanced concepts is top-notch. The text is also interspersed with mathematical biography and sidebars that explain how to use CAS to help understand concepts. These are well presented and do not take away from the core math taught in the book. I taught myself calculus during a summer using this book and without teacher intervention. It was the only one of five calculus textbooks that presented material clearly and simply enough to understand without outside help. In my mind, that's the highest compliment a math textbook can be given.
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Summary: Definitely a good intro text
Review: This text is intended for intro college calc courses and AP high school classes. It serves those purposes very well. The complaints by some reviewers that this book does not delve deep enough into theory are completely unwarranted. This book contains more than enough theory for anyone taking those courses, and for those who wish to pursue further studies of calculus there are more advanced courses and texts available for you.
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Summary: A classic issue among the giants!
Review: Thomas is a timeless reference text . His information is concise , precise and above all delightful for read and study .
Do not wait anymore . This is a winner!
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