Stewart Cuckulus

My Calc class uses Stewart. Should continue using apostol and just use stewart to do the problem sets or should I just switch over to stewart?

Use whatever it is that your professor happens to be using, and concentrate on getting the best grade possible, right now. Stewart is perfectly fine for a first jog through calculus, the hate that it gets here is partly a meme, and partly because it is not as autistically rigorous as the others.

By all means feel free to enrich yourself later using some other texts which have superior motivation and exposition (good on you for wanting to do this), but quite frankly you're going to be running through other topics, all the way up until graduation. Now is not the time for memes, or to ditch Stewart just because "hurr Veeky Forums does not like that book". Now is the time for you to get off on the right foot with what I assume is a very early point in your college career, and that means not asking Veeky Forums for fucking life advice, and not taking this post seriously unless you think about it and decide for yourself that it has been a sensible piece of advice, which you should never expect from Veeky Forums to begin with, but if it crops up once in a great while, fine. For right now, concentrate on the tedium, and tick the boxes like the nice teacher wants. that means: use whatever book it is that the professor is using, so that you will literally be on the same page. Now is not the time for you to get cute and try something different. Now is the time for you to just tick the boxes. That means: acquire same text that professor is using, and make sure you can perform in relevant class.

+1

>Use whatever it is that your professor happens to be using, and concentrate on getting the best grade possible, right now.

So much this.

Ty guys. I think I'll go through Apostol during winter break.

spivak
>philosophy major
all that to say nothing

1) I said a number of things, and in just the right proportion since the OP sounds like a kid with an earnest question. If you can't parse paragraphs or read words then that's on you, not me.

2) I MINORED in philosophy, and majored in math, so your thing is unwarranted. :^)

Strong post.

Not OP, but when is time to do something different than ticking boxes?

I'd continue using them both, butt you must use Stewart because of homework and in class review exercises maybe

>2) I MINORED in philosophy, and majored in math, so your thing is unwarranted. :^)

Dis nig kno wat he doin.