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Summary: Excellent introduction
Comment: Yes this book doesn't follow the standard way of teaching calculus, but it does what no other book I am aware of achieved. It makes calculus clear and understandable for the newbie. After reading this book, you can read the "standard" book without any problem.
The text is clear and concise. It is not obstructed by a millions of examples as is usually the case with other books. The examples are few but are carefully picked and illustrate the matching topic perfectly. The text is divided in many small chapters which make it easy to find what you want when you need it.
The exercises are all located at the end of each chapter, in the same philosophy as the samples, there are not too many and they illustrate the topic at hand perfectly. The solution are provided at the end of the book.

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Summary: An extraordinary book
Comment: Before you give up on the calculus, read this book. I bought this book for my son in the college. He told me that it had changed his perception of the calculus completely, giving him much better ubderstanding of the subject. Why they don't use this book in the college?

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Summary: Incredible Book, Old ways
Comment: This book overall is a great tool to teach calculus to yourself or someone else. It shows different calculations in ways I have never seen before, showing me a different side of calculus. The only downside to this book is some of the the old methods it insists on making you learn. I would definately recomend this book to anyone who is trying to learn calculus.

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Summary: Really 2 1/2 stars...not bad but not great
Comment: I really tried to like this book, and after going through 1/2 of it decided to sell it used. It is not great, has some relatively obsolete material which was not updated properly by the author. Better is the other Sylvanus collaboration from REA, Calculus Super Textbook (Super Textbooks). Better yet, if like me, you need a review after more than 20 years' (I took 3 calc sequences and DiffEq in 1978!), find an on-line calc course and take it (a good compromise between taking an attendance class and doing it yourself which usually never happens).

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Summary: Calculus Lite
Comment: The important thing to remember about this book is that it is calculus made easy - because it's easy calculus! It probably is not going to help you figure out problem # 64 in your 10 lb, 1000 page monster text. The other reviewers have noted that it does present basic concepts in an easy to understand format and it is useful for getting down those basics. But the problems tend to be the easy drill type found in the beginning of problem sets and there is a vast amount of material that is simply not covered. This book is probably more useful for the 'soft calculus' type of course. So if you really want to learn limits, the Fundamental Theorem, etc., go back and sweat the monster text.

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