Calculus: A Short Course with Applications

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Summary: Calculus: A Short Course to Confusion
Review: We used this book at a course at New York University. If I didn't have a good background in Calculus before I took the course I would've been lost by reading the text. The examples which the author uses oftentimes do not represent the material that was covered during the section. There are occasional errors with the answers in the back. The author also does not use any visual aids to illustrate his points, making the reader very confused when trying to figure out how to grasp a particular concept. Even a simple concept like the power rule, is explained in this convoluted manner. I would definitely not recomment this book to anybody who wishes to learn calculus.

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Summary: We used this in our calculus course
Review: We used this text in our Calculus course at New York University. It is quite possibly one of the poorest written math texts I've ever used. I hated it, and do not recommend that anyone purchase it because it was so horrible.