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Summary: A Festering Pile of Horse Manure
Review: I only gave this book one star because Amazon has no zero rating.A year-old newspaper is more useful than this book. Why? Because if the newspaper is lining my cat's litterbox, it is serving a useful purpose. This book is worthless. And, because it was so damn expensive, I can't use it to contain any of my kitty's little messes. Rot in hell, Stephen W. Goode!!! While you sip pina coladas in the Hamptons, thousands of students around the country are going bonkers trying to decipher your unreadable, cryptic prose. No explainations, no examples, just lots of headaches and an empty wallet. Mr T says: I pity da foo who gotta buy dis book! Too much jibbajabba!
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Summary: Just avoid it.....
Review: It is hard to understand why my university is using this book, but it is, and going from Calculus I/II, taught through "Calculus: Concepts and Contexts" by Stewart (a GREAT book where examples are explained and *gasp* a solutions manual was available!!) to this stale-piece-of-bread of a book is ridiculous. Hopefully you will have a teacher that teaches better than this book reads, not to mention a math department that can just steer clear away from this ungodly book.. Lack of color and reader-friendly design? Just the tip of the iceberg, seriously, unless you are just use to books written in math and not in english, you'll be fairly disapointed.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book is great for any student trying to learn introductory DE and linear algebra. I'm a high school student, and because I had a teacher who did not understand the topic, I had to read the entire book from chapters 1 to 8. His explanations are broad as well as clear, and he fully interprets the significance of the tools he is teaching in the book. Despite some of the above reviews of dissatisfied students, try the book yourself! (Only thing I didn't like much was the book's lack of color and a lack of reader-friendly design)
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