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Title: Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner ISBN: 0-312-18548-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.68 (53 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A TRUE CLASSICAL GEM IN MATHEMATICS
Comment: Calculus Made Easy is truly a well-written book. It divides into over 20 chapters thorough examples and applications of calculus as well as the development of calculus itself, and everything is surprisingly contained in fewer than 300 pages! Authors of many modern-day calculus textbooks twice its size try to explain the same fundamental concepts but cannot achieve Thompson's levels of triumph.
Topics in this work include: limits, maxima, minima, successive differentiation, compound interest, law of organic growth, and more. Though the subjects are frequently isolated for each chapter, Thompson has nonetheless provided insights to the degree that one could synthesize or put together these various concepts to formulate their own interesting problems and procedures.
With the great Martin Gardner to revise this classic and to provide further mathematical expositions, Calculus Made Easy is highly recommended for the lover of mathematics as well as the teacher who wants to present mathematics from a better thematic standpoint.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book but its kind of hard to understand at times
Comment: I'm going to be a junior in HS next year and take AP Calculus, but I got bored over the summer so I decided to pick up this book and learn some stuff to give me an edge next year. The first few chapters were very easy to understand and were written in plain simple language, but I got pretty hard when I started the chapter on finding derivatives of ln's and exponents. I spent like, a whole week on that one chapter before I finally understood. However, I hit a brick wall on the chapter about dodges, pitfalls, and triumphs (Integration techniques). This chapter is HARD HARD HARD!!!!!!! I'm still on this chapter; the first section of it is easy enough, but it got much harder on the second example of subsitution. Anyways, if you are going to buy this book, then be prepared to be stuck several times throughout the book! Oh and you need to have taken serveral years of math in order to get thru the book; I suggest taking a look at it AFTER you finish 2 years of algebra (Alg I and II), geometry, and Trig (The guy who said he read the book when he took geometry must be on crack or something because theres NO WAY a geometry student could understand this stuff (well, MAYBE the first few chapters, which are REALLY easy; it get MUCH harder from there), because geometry is BELOW Alg II and Trig, both of which are CRUCIAL to your understanding of calculus!) If you do manage to get thru the book, then it is VERY satisfying, and you'll learn a LOT, because calculus sort of ties up all your math up to this point; all that math that you have learned throughout all those years will finally come together!
Rating: 4
Summary: Introductory Text 1st Year - Freshman
Comment: This is a basic introductory text normally for first year or freshman year at university or similar level. It presents a fairly comprehensive introduction.
It is used as a first year text in some schools/universities and if you have the extra money it is a nice reference book. I strongly recommend doing as many problems as possible so I also recommend the book: 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus by Elliott Mendelson. You can buy that on Amazon.com also. If you are in first year and you have another text, probably do not buy this book, just buy the 3000 Mendelson problems and do some of those in parallel to the regular lectures and homework.
If you have failed calculus and need help to study for a summer exam or similar, get a professional tutor and or buy the 3000 Mendelson problem book. Do as many problems as you can. This will help you pass or improve your grades.
Jack in Toronto, former professor
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Calculus by W. Michael Kelley ISBN: 0028643658 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Geometry and Trigonometry for Calculus by Peter H. Selby ISBN: 0471775584 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 April, 1975 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: How to Ace Calculus : The Streetwise Guide by Colin Adams, Joel Hass, Abigail Thompson ISBN: 0716731606 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: 15 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: 3,000 Solved Problems in Calculus by Elliott Mendelson ISBN: 0070415234 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Practical Algebra: A Self-Teaching Guide, 2nd Edition by Peter H. Selby, Steve Slavin ISBN: 0471530123 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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