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Reader' Reviews

Calculus Book Review / / 2010-02-17
The book came between the specified dates and was in great condition. I was very pleased with the book.

The Whole Truth / / 2010-01-28
How this book is rated depends on one factor: Do you want to learn calculus? If you do, then this book is excellent. Read each section twice while carefully thinking about what is going on. I will say that a small percentage of the exercises are difficult, not because the concepts are difficult, but because it can be hard to know how to set the problem up and because students forget trigonometry or algebra. Find the Instructor Solutions Manual and use these harder exercises and all the project questions to enhance your understanding of the subject, not to obsess over for hours because you can't figure it out. If you don't get a problem within a reasonable amount of time, simply look at the solution and fully understand how it was arrived at.

If you don't like math AND you don't want to learn it, this book will torture you, maybe more than other texts, at least for Calc 2 and Calc 3.

Probably the best Undergrad Calculus Text / / 2009-12-05
I had this book for Calculus I, II, and III. It does a decent job at explaining everything and there are some good exercises in the book. If you actually read through the chapters, you will find yourself picking things up easier, and there are great examples in the reading.

This is probably as good as you are going to get in a Undergraduate Calculus text. I find myself going back to it every now and again to refresh my knowledge.

Great Calculus Book / / 2009-11-19
This book thoroughly explains everything clearly, offers great examples, and good homework problems. The student solutions manual that accompanies it is awesome. After taking 2 courses in calculus with this book after using a different one for calc 1, this book became a treasure and is one of the best books i own.

There is nothing worse on the market. / / 2009-11-11
This book was selected for Calculus 1 and 2 when I was a student in university together with Thomas Calculus (thank god!). Since Thomas was very difficult to find available in our library I tried to use Stewart's book. I have to admit I have never read anything worse in my life on any math subject. Reading it gives a student no knowledge and leaves him only frustrated and angry trying desperately to understand what in the world he just read. You will have to re-read the same sentence over and over again before you can make any sense out of it. Please do not waste your precious time on this monstrosity. Thomas book was quite good and I am sure there are plenty of others. If you prefer intuitive explanation to contemporary rigorous text go for Keisler's Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach which is available online a free ebook and is unique in the way it teaches calculus.
I am reviewing calculus again today. I honestly tried to give this book another chance (new edition) but it is just impossible. No book ever left so much frustrated.