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Summary: Simply not a good choice for future mathematicians
Review: I am now taking calculus with this book. I don't know how people survived calculus with this book. This book is for someone who really has a grasp on calculus, not for beginners. The examples don't match the problems, so you're thoroughly confused and have nothing to look at to help you when you're doing homework. You get a headache literally just from trying to understand it. Calculus is hard enough and the authors make it harder to learn than it needs to be. I've had other calculus books that explain much better and have very thorough examples that I could understand and keep up with. This book does a very poor job.
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Summary: Ridiculous!
Review: I had this book for three terms of calculus, and it was a headache. For every one person who liked the book, there were fifty who didn't. The authors, in trying to take a "leaner, more conceptual approach" to calculus, thoroughly confuse. The chapters on series and sequences are impossible to understand, and no practical problems are included in them. A good textbook supplements the material presented in lecture, and this one certainly did not. To summarize: this book presents calculus in a way that makes it seem far, far more complicated than it really is. And, to top it off, this is an *experimental* textbook that has been around for years. Time to conclude the experiment; it failed!
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Summary: as a future calculus teacher...
Review: I used this book for my calc class and while it is an interesting and noble approach at changing the way calculus is being taught today, it lacks the ability to explain things on the student's level. It is a great text if someone already knows calculus, to get at the concepts in an alternative light. However, for students with little or no calculus experience - prepare to be lost and pray for a hepful professor.
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Summary: Simply not a good choice for future mathematicians
Review: There are a lot of good calculus textbooks out there, and many of them are better, I think, than this one. I don't know whether the authors are trying to make calculus easy & interesting. The result is that students learn more how to use the machines than the subject--mathematics itself. Students talk more math than do math!! The authors seem to thoroughly go against the classics that emphasizes the "symbolic" approach more than "numerical and graphical". Sometimes new approaches should be encouraged but I personally believe that all should do to help the students grasp the materials and enhance their mathematical thoughts. This is a book that teaches you how to learn and teach calculus.
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Summary: Don't Support this cause!!!!!
Review: This book is awful. From both personal and second-hand experiences, I can say that this book will make your life miserable. The authors attempt to give the readers a deeper understanding of calculus concepts, but go about it an an obtuse and incredibly disorienting fashion. The book is chock-full of obscure references, half-hearted derivations, dizzying metaphors and incredibly bad jokes. Trying to follow this text is like trying to follow the wing movements of a hummingbird on steroids.Also, the authors of this book are devious in their methods. They are constantly re-issuing new editions, and because they have a vice grip on their school's math department, students are forced to buy new editions every semester. This means after suffering our way through an entire semester of this dreadful text, we can't even get a decent deal when we try to sell back our books, because it is a new edition has been released. Math professors, this book is not worth your time. Do not supoprt this machine. It is a bad, bad thing. Liberate us!!!
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Summary: Don't Support this cause!!!!!
Review: This book is awful. From both personal and second-hand experiences, I can say that this book will make your life miserable. The authors attempt to give the readers a deeper understanding of calculus concepts, but go about it an an obtuse and incredibly disorienting fashion. The book is chock-full of obscure references, half-hearted derivations, dizzying metaphors and incredibly bad jokes. Trying to follow this text is like trying to follow the wing movements of a hummingbird on steroids. Also, the authors of this book are devious in their methods. They are constantly re-issuing new editions, and because they have a vice grip on their school's math department, students are forced to buy new editions every semester. This means after suffering our way through an entire semester of this dreadful text, we can't even get a decent deal when we try to sell back our books, because it is a new edition has been released. Math professors, this book is not worth your time. Do not supoprt this machine. It is a bad, bad thing. Liberate us!!!
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