Schaum's Easy Outline: Calculus [Abridged] [Paperback]

Frank Ayres (Author), Elliott Mendelson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0070527105 | ISBN-13: 978-0070527102 | Publication Date: October 11, 1999 | Edition: 1

Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series for the student with limited time

What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version of its predecessor. With an emphasis on clarity and brevity, each new title features a streamlined and updated format and the absolute essence of the subject, presented in a concise and readily understandable form.

Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.

• Designed to appeal to underprepared students and readers turned off by dense text
• Cartoons, sidebars, icons, and other graphic pointers get the material across fast
• Concise text focuses on the essence of the subject
• Delivers expert help from teachers who are authorities in their fields
• Perfect for last-minute test preparation
• So small and light that they fit in a backpack!

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

When you don't have the time...but you still need the grade! If your life is too busy to spend hours pouring over weighty textbooks, and you need every study minute to count, this Schaum's Easy Outline is perfect for you! This super-condensed, high-torque study guide gives you what you need to know in a fraction of the time.

SUPER-IMPACT

Built for quick, effective study, this Easy Outline packs exciting new learning tools that make mastering calculus fast, and fun.

SPEEDY

Quick-study experts slashed the time you need to spend with your books by reducing calculus to the essentials the professor expects you to know. This Easy Outline is perfect for test preparation, pre-exam review, and handling those last-minute cram situations.

HI-QUALITY

Easy Outlines give you 100% of the authority of Schuam's full-sized guides, known around the world for the highest academic standards.

BACKPACK-ABLE STUDY POWER

Compact and portable, this Easy Outline lets you study calculus anywhere.

Schaum's Gets the Grade!

Let's talk bottom line. Schaum's Easy Outline give you what you want ­­better grades, with less work, and more free time!

Get the essence of calculus the easy way. Schaum's Easy Outline of Calculus helps you master calculus with plenty of illustrations, memory joggers, and the newest, rapid-absorption teaching techniques. Backed by Schaum's reputation for academic authority, this is the study guide students turn to and trust. Students know that Schaum's is going to be there for them when they need it!

Quick study tips; Student-friendly style; At-a-glance charts; Perfect for test prep.

About the Author

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Product Details

• Paperback: 135 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (October 11, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070527105
• ISBN-13: 978-0070527102
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,059,038 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for quick review; you still need to do homework., November 7, 2003

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Zain (Irvine, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Schaum's Easy Outline: Calculus (Paperback)

This book should help you in reviewing your notes that you took in class. As the title of the book suggests, this is a crash course for general calculus.

Figures and graphs in the book should help you understand many different problems and how their solutions are derived. You should expect to solve many of the problems in the book yourself, on paper, also. That is the only way to understand mathematics; by doing it yourself. This book should help you get started in the right direction because of the ample examples present in it.

Do not expect to get rid your other calculus books and use this as the sole text for reviewing Calculus. This book is meant to be a companion to your other calculus textbooks, not their replacement. As good as it may be, you still need detailed explaination of rules and theories about Calculus, which are not explained in this book.

14 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding aid to Calculus!, June 26, 2000

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Lauren Bonaddio - See all my reviews

This review is from: Schaum's Easy Outline: Calculus (Paperback)

I'm a graduating senior and i just bought this book to get myself ready for college this year! It's an amazing book and is easy to understand.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Reviewing Kindle edition not book content: almost useless edition, August 2, 2009

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Alejandro Frenkel - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Schaum's Easy Outlines - Calculus (Kindle Edition)

The Kindle edition of this book is really lousy. I would suggest you don't buy it.

1) Graphics (as oposed to normal text) are mediocre at most. When math formulas are delivered as graphics, they are extremely pixelated to the point you can hardly read (e.g. in lim x->a, you can't read the x or the a). The color of the formula is a very light gray (not black) whith very low contrast. And the formulas are very large in comparison to the written text, which is annoying since 3 formulas can take the whole Kindle DX screen, and is very common to have text referring to a formula that is in the following page, when you have space in the same page). In summary, very large formulas which you can't read beacause of pixelation and lack of contrast. Function graphs are ok.

2) Each time a graphic appears, there is a huge space before and after it. These leaves pages that are have way too many blank spaces. It is a complete waste of the DX screen space. To follow a simple solution you may have to scroll easily through 3 pages.

3) Very poor editing. When formulas are texts (i.o. graphics as I mentioned in point 1), I found some mistakes.. e.g "x = 4 = 3" instead of "x = 4-3". While one can also find such mistakes in a print version, they are far less common. In the Kindle edition they become annoying.

4) The "boxes" with light gray of the print books are lost in the Kindle edition. The text of the box is there, but you don't immediately realize it is a box. So the flow of the text is difficult to follow.

I have four Easy Outine books in print and they are awesome. There are lots of info in a compact and clear layout. The spirit of the Easy Outlines is completely lost in the Kindle Edition. Would return it if I could.