Reddit reviews Calculus

E-books are poorly discounted (if at all,) cannot be bought used, and cannot be sold to recover some of the purchase cost. Is it any wonder students prefer paper?

Picking a Calculus book at random. Which would be more appealing to a cash starved student. Spending $208 or spending $167 with a strongly likely hood of reselling for ~$60 after fees. In this case paper is potentially half the cost of an e-book.

I learned using this book by Larson. It goes out of its way to be intelligible, and I appreciated that. It's hard to recommend things sometimes, because I think everybody has a different path to understanding these topics. A lot of the time it seems you need to just keep throwing resources at it until something sticks. Good luck.

Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer by Incropera is pretty much the standard text on the subject by my understanding.

I used Hibbeler for Mechanics of Materials, but Beer is also a popular choice.

Hibbeler for dynamics as well.

Larson has a pretty good calculus book, will take you from derivatives up through multivariable.

A good resource if you feel like digging deeper is the physics forums - science and math textbook forum.

> The 14th is brand new this year, so I'd take that single one-star review with a huge grain of salt.

Yes you raise a good point. One review is usually not a good metric.

>So it's possible that they botched it up pretty badly and Thomas is rolling in his grave.

Looks like this edition was released in January. I guess we will find out at the end of this semester as more reviews start to roll in.

I was always a fan of the Stewart book to be honest. It was lovely to go through.

A lesser known book Calculus by Larson and Edwards is also a personal favorite. Have you used the Stewart or Larson books?


>I recommend a riot, burning the Pearson HQ to the ground

That is just yet another reason. There are already many reasons to riot Pearson already. :)

Honestly, Calculus by Ron Larson. You can get a previous edition(I used the 9th when I was learning) for cheaper. This is the clearest Calculus book I have ever read at Stewart's level (I textbook I detest btw). Larson also has a website http://www.calcchat.com/ where he has step by step solutions to all odd problems, so very very good for self learning.

I took Calc I & II last semesters and we used [this textbook] (https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Ron-Larson/dp/1285057090). Check again in a month on coursebook, but you'll most likely use the same book.

Calculus or Pre-calc?
For calculus, I recommend: http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Ron-Larson/dp/1285057090/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1398268486&sr=1-2&keywords=larson+edwards+calculus

It's written by the same guy who does the Calculus 1 and 2 lectures for The Teaching Company.

He doesn't address the problem I mentioned in my previous post, but I still think this is a much more concise book.

I also have this one (10th ed) but its not the one you want :/ https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Ron-Larson/dp/1285057090

pre-cal: http://www.amazon.com/Precalculus-5th-Edition-Robert-Blitzer/dp/0321837347

calculus: http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Ron-Larson/dp/1285057090

Hawking is a theoretical physicist. His craft is closer to math than it is to classical physics.

You made a lot of erroneous and hot-headed statements, but that's understandable. Since you seem to be very, very ignorant of math, I don't even know where to even begin to show you the differences - I am at a disadvantage here :) How about we talk about levels, then?

Most math an engineer knows is barely a first year material for a math undergrad. Math is so vast that even the grad students of math are at the very base of a huge mountain.

Here's Basic Algebra for a math major(flip through the first pages and checkout the contents).

Here's Algebra for engineers.

Notice how the algebra for engineers is a very small part of general algebra and non-rigorous at that.

Here's Calculus for engineers.

Here's Calculus for math majors.

This is not to say engineers are mentally inferior to mathematicians, it's just these two professions are concerned with fundamentally different things.