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To this day I still pull out Apostol's Calculus textbooks. If you're looking to learn calculus really well, or just brush up, these are the ones. http://www.ama
by krambs 16y ago
To this day I still pull out Apostol's Calculus textbooks. If you're looking to learn calculus really well, or just brush up, these are the ones. http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Vol-One-Variable-Introduction-Algebra/dp/0471000051 http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Vol-One-Variable-Introduction...
- kenjackson 16y agoIMO the theorems in Apostol are tricky reading for most first learning Calculus.. Although probably for the HN crowd are appropriate. But I can't argue with the content or preparation it provides. I personally prefer Stewart as I think it is appropriate for a wider range of ability, while still being excellent.
- krambs 16y agoHa, yeah. Apostol definitely was a bit painful at first. But it felt like deriving calculus helped me learn better and remember it longer than more rote methods.
- Darmani 16y agoApostol is quite dry and unmotivated. A grad student friend of mine recently wrote a textbook to replace it, and has been testing it on the freshman honors calculus course here.
- gaurav_v 16y agoI would strongly suggest Jerry Shurman's Calculus and Multivariable Calculus texts, which are available for free on his website: people.reed.edu/~jerry/
- shadowpwner 16y agoThis is pretty cool. Are there answers for the exercises?
- gaurav_v 16y agoHe posts answers to the exercises on his website as the course progresses each year. This year there are no answers because he's not teaching the course; he's on sabbatical.