Comments on: The most enlightening Calculus books

By: Reginaldo Mondragon

Reginaldo Mondragon — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:17:13 +0000

I would appreciate if someone faxes or e-mails me some ten pages of Calculus, by Lyman M. Kells, 1947, Prentice Hall. These pages contain the results of the problems posted in the book. I can provide the page numbers. Thanks in advance,
R. Mondragón
reginaldoo@hotmail.com

By: JasonMode

JasonMode — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:47:44 +0000

Sorry, I better it clear……

Thompson’s book is named ” Calculus made easy”…… His book is good, especially for high school or junior high students

Others are really not worth reading

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:01:37 +0000

COurant is available free online. SO is apostle. Legitametly. They can be read in your browser. Google it.

By: JasonMode

JasonMode — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 15:39:49 +0000

Like Math Cheetah said, those “Calculus Made Easy” or some books like this are not worth reading.

By: Joe Nice

Joe Nice — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:54:33 +0000

A great intro to abstract algebra is WW Sawyers “Abstract Algebra: A Concrete Approach”
It’s hard to find….

By: Siraaj

Siraaj — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:26:31 +0000

Exactly! You echo my thoughts! This journey of discovery, and the meaning behind calculus is what I to am searching for – I could care less about techniques to pass the class type texts. I’m looking to really understand the evolution of problem solving that led to what is modern calculus.

By: Nur

Nur — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:06:46 +0000

Apostol sounds good! It’s bit expensive, though.

By: zizu

zizu — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:07:45 +0000

what about Thomas fineny calculus …very interesting much exercise!!

By: gonfa

gonfa — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:01:53 +0000

i need free book of calculus

By: Math Cheetah

Math Cheetah — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:24:28 +0000

Folks,

I am going to look into this Spivak character as well as that Budin fellow.

A couple people mentioned the book “Calculus Made Easy”. I personally think that book is hogwash. I had picked it up at the library so that I could delve back into Calculus and see where I had went wrong. Unfortunately, though, the pages were filled with dialog about princes & queens which was a major turn-off. I read pieces of 3 pages and just decided to return it to the library the next day. So, the moral of the story: If you like learning Math by applying the concepts & operations repetitively until it’s second nature then find a different book than “calculus made easy”.

What this brings me to is…who can tell me a great calculus book that gets into the nuts & bolts, which also provides vast opportunities for practice?

Thanks, I am going to be the king of Calculus; I need your help, though.