Calculus for Dummies

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Summary: An easy to understand self-help guide for math students
Review: What makes Calculus for Dummies so enjoyable is the humor Mark Ryan often includes in his book. He has such an understanding of how stressful and difficult Calculus can be without tutoring and additional assistance. But the tutoring is exactly what Mr. Ryan provides, and he does so with great humor and wit. Even more, I suspect that he asks the reader or harried student to not take herself or himself too seriously.

Mark Ryan seems to have an uncanny sense of when the student is feeling scared of, or frustrated by, some intimidating problem or eerie looking equation. And it is at such times when he is gracious enough to let the student know that it's allright to be feeling scared. But he also lets the math student know that with a bit of humor and persistence he or she could certainly also reach that level of understanding which is is so obvious in the author.