Customer Reviews

Calculus: Multivariable

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Math is hard to read. This book makes it as easy as it gets (which is still pretty hard). It highlights all of the equations you use, and the solutions manual makes every problem very easy to understand.

This book does some concepts well, but many sections are less than a 5th of a page long before giving you one or two examples and inundating you with exercises. Without a professor doing most of the teaching, you will not learn multivariable calculus from this book.

The book that I received was the book that I wanted, but I was under the impression that it would be in better shape than it was, but other than that, it was great.

I can only speak to the "content" of this book and not the problems since my professor didn't give out bookwork.

I can say that this book is about as useful in teaching vector calculus as wikipedia. Rather than starting off with the topics in a clear and concise manner, this book seems to enjoy starting with page-long proofs of why these theorems are true. Great for math majors...as an engineering student...proofs are a waste of time. Then instead of giving simple examples to start with before leading into more advanced applications, the meager 2 examples present for each topic are the most difficult and obscure ones possible. The explanations for the examples were even worse- paragraphs that assume the reader already knows how to do the problems. Eventually I found myself just looking towards google or hunting down the professor to answer most of my questions.

The reason I gave this book 2 stars instead of 1 is that it is fairly decent in review. All of the theorems are nicely boxed out and easy to see. In summary, you'd love this book if you enjoy hacking through a dense jungle of difficult material. However, if you're actually looking at this book it's probably required material anyways.