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Title: Calculus by James Stewart ISBN: 0534359493 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 21 May, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $136.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.89
Rating: 5
Summary: Not for the slack student
Comment: This text book was extremely difficult to understand when I first bought it. Even after spending a significant amount of time on that book alone, calculus to me was still confusing. This is the text book I used for my computer science course. Had to drop the calculus units since I found it hard. But when I decided to jump right into Discrete Mathematics for computer science, I was forced to review through my college algebra notes. It was after I finished discrete mathematics did I finally understand the formality of Stewarts text book which made it so difficult to understand. In high school calculus text books, the language used arent so formal. In fact, reading a high school calculus text book is like reading a text book on college algebra and trigonometry. Stewarts text book require that you understand the language of proving theorems and thats what Discrete Mathematics in computer science taught me. But let me warn you that you should also thoroughly read through a text book on college algebra and trigonometry plus geometry. Combine that with Discrete Mathematics and you will see the beauty of stewarts text book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not for the faint of heart!
Comment: I have heard talk that this is the best calculus text out there. If so, mathematics professors really need to get their publishing act together. This may be a tour-de-force of math knowledge, in which author James Stewart expounds just how much of an expert he is on the subject, but it is NOT a good book to LEARN from. I took calculus about a year ago and used this text to refresh my knowledge for an upcoming class. It took me multiple passes through the Chain Rule section (actually, quite easy stuff!) to jog my memory. The way Stewart explains things makes a prerequisite in astrophysics required for learning from the book. I will grant that it's colorful and well illustrated, which is the reason for the second star, but that probably only serves to double the price of the textbook. You'll probably have to get the solutions guide to learn from this at all- and boy do they make a killing off you in the process! There is a lot of non-essential extra information that really should be in different sections, but is instead the first thing you'll read about a fundamental concept. I was particularly irked by how Stewart demonstrates how different differential notation can be used to show formulae. This is ridiculous. He should stick with one all the way through, and put the rest in footnotes. If you instructor uses this text, you had better hope he's better at explaining things, or you'll be up the creek.
Rating: 1
Summary: Again and again and again
Comment: Again I will say for the umpteenth time. This book is NO GOOD. I DON'T CARE WHAT KIND OF IMPROVEMENTS THIS LOW-QUALITY BOOK MADE.
I've used the 4th edition of this low quality book and I saw the previous editions to it. I don't EVEN begin to think that this so-called new 5th addition brings anything new to the table that the calculus student can benefit from.
I will speak as a pharmacy student from an accredited pharmacy school. If any professor asked me to recommend a calculus book to teach his class the one recommendation I would give to that math teacher is to "STAY AWAY FROM THIS AUTHOR AND HIS CALCULUS BOOKS". There are way too may user-friendly calculus that explain the concepts and methodology of calculus one million times better than what Stewart and his collegues can write.
Stewart needs to retire from the math texbook writing business.
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Title: Student Solutions Manual for Stewart's Single Variable Calculus by Daniel Anderson, Jeffery A. Cole, Daniel Drucker ISBN: 0534359531 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Study Guide for Stewart's Single Variable Calculus by Richard St. Andre ISBN: 0534364314 Publisher: Thomson Learning Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: Student Solutions Manual for Stewart's Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals by Daniel Anderson, Jeffery A. Cole, Daniel Drucker, Stewart ISBN: 0534363016 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Multivariable Calculus: Stewart's Student Manual by Dan Clegg, Barbara Frank ISBN: 0534359574 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: Calculus, Early Transcendentals by James Stewart ISBN: 0534362982 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 04 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $136.95 |
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