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Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, Single Variable

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James Stewart has gone far and beyond from the ordinary math course. He uses good examples and excellent looking graphics. However, once you start doing the problems they soon become quite difficult after doing four or five of them. I have spoken to a different Calculus instructor, not mine, and he says the same thing. He said that the author did not publish enough simple, easy to do problems before immediately getting into real difficult problems. I give it 2 stars because it might be easy for a math major to understand this text, however this book is supposed to gear more towards first time Calculus students.

The text is very good, straightforward, readable, and has great graphs (I especially like the sections with the graphing calculator). However, the book lacks a) the rigor and b) the amount of examples which would make it an excellent text. The sequences and series unit was cut a bit short, and there could have been more in the differential equations unit (like, for example, how to solve second-order differential equations). Overall, a good textbook.

My daughter is taking Calculus in HS, and the teacher suggested buying a copy of the textbook for home so they didn't have to carry it back and forth each day (it's really heavy)! This was a fantastic price, and it's so great to have a book for home. My daughter has done this with other textbooks, all from Amazon, and has been able to find the prices so great that it's totally worth doing. After she finishes with the book, my other daughter will use it, then we'll pass it on to someone else. I doubt our HS will be upgrading the textbooks anytime soon, so this book will get lots of use.

This is a well put together, comprehensive, and easy to understand calculus book. The material and explanations are succint, thereby not confusing. For anyone who should be taking calculus, this is a good book.

To make book's review is quite hard specially if you are not writting in your native language. The book is a good one, i think is well written and you can understand a lot of the magic matematics reading. Of course, you should study very much if you want to learn!.