Customer Reviews

University Calculus

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This "textbook" shouldn't rightly be called so. I was required to buy this for my calculus class as well as my vector geometry class, but it should really be labeled a problem set booklet. There's no instruction, the examples are often way off from the problems with little to no correlation, and the problems which do correlate to the very limited examples often take the basic theory and twist them into extremely difficult equations which require rules not given or mentioned. Expect to see your professor for office hours a lot if you are required to use this book.

I had to use this book for my classes and had to refer to another book [Calculus: Early Transcendentals] that explained so much better to understand the material. Even my math instructors hated this book and would not pick this book to teach but had no choice! In this book, there is hardly any explanation to help with the homework or even where the stuff came from. I feel so cheated and get really bittered whenever I have to crack open the lousy book or even look at it! I always keep my text books for reference; however, this is THE one book I would not hesistate to sell or even recycle.

Had to get this book for college calculus class. There are plenty of good practice problems, but its explanations are absolutely useless, I had to buy Calculus for Dummies just to understand the subject.

This book was not that helpful in explaining math concepts. I love math but this math book along with many other upper level math textbooks are just too lengthy and ineffective in teaching math. To be honest, I barely opened this book for my Calculus 2 class. A teacher and the internet are much better resources! For students, I recommend they find out directly from their teacher if the book is absolutely required because in my case, it wasn't, and I wasted $40. The only thing this book provided was problems to practice what my teacher taught me and answers to the odd problems in the back. But since my math homework was online I was less inclined to do problems in the book.

The book was in good condition and it had the online book code still inside! The shipping took a while, but it was still a satisfactory product.

Great service, got here right away without any problems and bought it for more than $100 less than my college book store.

The book came in the expected condition with no markings either on the inside or the outside