Written by a guy who thought the way calculus needed a serious overhaul. After writing and using this textbook, Knisley reported a dramatic improvement in the grades of students taking calculus-related courses after adopting this book. It has computer algebra exercises and it's also free.
Is this a worthwhile textbook to use if you want something better than Stewart but doesn't focus on proofs?
If it's just a single variable textbook then it's not missing anything. I know the guy has an online multivariable "textbook" that's separate to this one, too, but it's not neatly outlined onto a pdf.
Zachary Miller
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Wyatt Russell
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Kevin Thomas
>Is this a good calculus textbook? Why don't you read it and find out?
Bentley Gutierrez
I think it's a good textbook. Better than Stewart at least. But I don't know if it's worthwhile to recommend to others.
Connor Martinez
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Isaac Wood
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Jose White
I went through undergrad using Stewart. In my free time I read through Tom Apostol's calculus, and would really recommend it. My 70 year old calc 1 professor always talked shit about Stewart and said Apostol was great--he was speaking the truth.
Colton Davis
Looking for something below Apostol for the moment. Not interested in proofing.
Chase Wilson
Then use Stewart...
Xavier Wright
Stewart is shit. There are better books for its role.
Elijah Ramirez
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Isaiah Morris
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Matthew Brown
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Nicholas Rogers
Such as?
Juan Martin
Thomas's Calculus, meaning mostly 2nd-4th edition, 5th-9th edition for more brainlet-friendly content and presentation. And perhaps the PDF as well.
John Kelly
Nobody cares about your stupid ass failing a course highschoolers can pass. Let your shitty thread die.
Bentley Ortiz
I aced it in high school too, user. Just wondering if this is a good textbook. Thanks for the bump!
Austin Wright
you're taking calculus, and stewart has too much proofs for you? please fuck off. anything is good.
Colton Nguyen
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I'm just looking for a good calculus textbook to serve as a resource for tutoring. Have you tried tutoring calculus with Spivak to your average student? It's not going to be a good experience.
I liked using Thomas's Calculus for the purpose, but I wanted to see if it was a good idea to start using this PDF as a resource as well, especially since it's free and available online. That's it.
Besides, I never said that Stewart had too much proofing. If anything, it has too little proofing with too little motivation to inspire any sort of mathematical curiosity, but I digress.
Jack Reyes
Looks kinda boring.
Could use more colors/better font
I don't know how people expect to teach calculus when they're using a boring ass format.
Asher Reed
check out whatever the ocw.mit.edu 18.01sc course uses
Ryan Ortiz
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Isaac Wilson
what more do you want?
Connor Rogers
>Calculus >Boring Nice bait Oldfriend
Jose Morales
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Julian Mitchell
Thompson's calculus and Keisler's calculus are both avalable as free PDFs online. What more could you want for tutoring?
Parker Cook
If you are implying you cannot read proofs, theorems and definitions. Then to be frank you're incapable of comprehending non-rigorous calculus.
Evan Gray
t. pompous, pretentious math fag with a rod up his ass
Anyone know a text that specifically handles multivariable well? Parameterization, finding bounds of integration, etc, in particular? Div, grad, curl, etc, are all simple concepts. Stoke's and Green's theorems make sense. But then when it's time to evaluate them, I trip.