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Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Thompson and edited by Martin Gardner is one of the best introductory texts for people without a calculus background. Highly recommend.

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Thompson and Martin Gardner

Calculus Made Easy -- Can't get much better as far as bang for the buck. Follow it up something more rigorous. Maybe, Calculus, Vol 1 by Apostol. The problem with Apostol, as most calculus texts, is price.

I liked Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson It has been around long enough it should be in most libraries, and the original (without Martin Gardner's revisions) is availible on Project Gutenburg for free: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/dp/0312185480/ref=pd_sim_b_2/176-3762013-5071850

I am doing this very thing. I found some fantastic books that might help get you (re)started. They certainly helped me get back into math in my 30s. Be warned, a couple of these books are "cute-ish", but sometimes a little sugar helps the medicine go down:

1. Algebra Unplugged
   
2. Calculus for Cats
   
3. Calculus Made Easy
   
4. Trigonometry
   
   I wish you all the best!
   
   

Pick up Calculus Made Easy .. check out its reviews on amazon. it will help you actually understand calculus instead of just memorizing techniques.

1. My BSCS was distance learning. The degree doesn't say anything about the status in which you achieved it okay, get that out of your mind now. I was doing my schoolwork on break days in Afghanistan during a deployment, so if somebody said something to me about distance learning, I would ask them if they served our country. My MSSE is distance learning since I am a full time developer now. Most companies have no issue with an online MS, so I don't know where the online BS stigma came from. Just pick a good program (not like a for-profit school) that is reputable; no need to ever mention in an interview that you did it online, its moot.
   
   
2. Calculus Made Easy. Best book I ever had through my years of engineering. Keep this with you!
   
   Now even though you have emphasis to seek a mathematical inclination, I should state that if you go into a CS program, it is not inherently going to force you into a mathematics heavy career. My CS program was very heavy into mathematics, and my job is as well. But many of my cohorts went on to do JS web development or UI/UX design which may use little to know mathematical constructs.
   
   Just my two cents, happy to share anything you need.

Get this book.

Don't bother with a course, teach yourself. Here's the classic text: http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/dp/0312185480

This book helped me to understand the whys of calculus not just the hows.

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/dp/0312185480/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1398376498&sr=8-8&keywords=calculus

I also recommend this timeless classic, Calculus Made Easy by Sylvanus P. Thompson. It's really great for developing intuition.

Source: I learned calc while doing precalc, just like OP is planning.

For your calculus brush-up, I would wholeheartedly recommend Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson. Available as pdf here or a newer, revised edition from Amazon here in which Martin Gardner has updated terminology, notation and such, as well as adding some excellent introductory chapters that help with the intuition. It is a deceptively small book with around 300 A5 sized pages, but it delivers most everything you need to know about calculus, including many handy tricks, in a intuitive down to earth style. Each chapter has a bunch of problems of varying degree along with solutions in the appendix. To top it off, Richard Feynmann was introduced to calculus from this book too...

In my opinion, a solid and intuitive understanding of calculus is one of the most important aspect of understanding much of physics, and the book has certainly helped me a great deal.

Another important aspect is of course vectors, for which I enjoyed the slightly unusual treatment in About Vectors by Banesh Hoffmann, although I'm unsure if it is fitting for revisiting.

[First choice to start at high school algebra] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0965911373/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

[A second choice that is also pretty good, but not as good as the 1st one] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592009425/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

[Great book that explains calculus, will be even more amazing if you don't have a good teacher] (http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/dp/0312185480/ref=zg_bs_491544_8)

Also, Khan explains all the problems step by step, which will allow you to solve them on your own.

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson. I read this book 10 years after college and I felt like I finally really understood what calculus is all about. Kind of rekindled my interest in math.

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Thompson. This book reads like a book, not a "normal" calc book and explains things extremely well. The first edition was actually published all the way back in 1910 and it has stood the test of time for calculus. I, seriously, cannot recommend this book enough for teaching oneself calculus and for actually UNDERSTANDING what you're doing and why.

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/dp/0312185480

Here it is on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/dp/0312185480/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1492741701&sr=1-1&keywords=calculus+made+easy

It is noted in the reviews that the hard back copy is superior

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Hey no problem glad I could help. The resources you can get from this sub are fantastic so use the hell out of this sub.

A couple other things you might be interested in.

• A very partial Map of Mathematics -- what we learned in school (arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trig, calculus) is only a few fields out of more than 100 fields in math now. It's mind-boggling to see how sprawling the entire field of math is, and as you go "higher" there is more and more overlap and interconnections between fields. I found it very helpful to understand this because it forced me to put things in perspective and realign how I thought about math as a whole. It's huge.
  
  
• The small book Calculus Made Easy by Sylvanus Thompson. Written 100 years ago it teaches calculus using nothing more than basic algebra. It turns out the way calculus is taught today relies on the concept of limits which is hugely important in "real math" but is completely counterintuitive when first starting out with calculus. The calculus curriculum standardized on teaching limits up front around 1950 or so. This book uses the intuitive concept of infinitesimal quantities which limits replaced. The way the book teaches it lets you feel how calculus works and get a very intuitive gut feeling for what is going on, as opposed to the modern limit-based proof approach that IMO sucks the life right out of calculus. Limits are important but Newton and everyone else did just fine without them for 300 years, so I say learn it the intuitive way first and then learn limits once you understand what is going on.
  
  
• AbstractMath.org. Specifically the sections on how math definitions work and the concept of mathematical objects. Since you are a developer these things should be very easy for you to pick up, and they really helped me understand how math really works in general. The site was made by a math researcher specifically to help struggling undergrads bridge from "how to solve equations" and turn into "how to reason about mathematical objects with specific properties" required in more abstract math. Which is some of the most interesting math, again from the standpoint of building on how you are already kind of wired to think anyway.
  
  Have fun!

Does this appear to be the same book to you?

Same main title, and guy - but a different subtitle, this looks more like the older one you linked, but if I can save a buck or two... d=

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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>PROLOGUE.
>
>Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it
>should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool
>to learn how to master the same tricks.
>
>Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult .
>The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics (and they
>are mostly clever fools) seldom take the trouble to show you how easy
>the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to
>impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the
>most difficult way.
>
>Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach
>myself the difficultieis, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the
>parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will
>follow. What one fool can do, another can.
>



>CHAPTER I.
>
>TO DELIVER YOU FROM THE PRELIMINARY TERRORS.
>
>The preliminary terror, which chokes o most fth-form boys from
>even attempting to learn how to calculate, can be abolished once for
>all by simply stating what is the meaning|in common-sense terms|of
>the two principal symbols that are used in calculating.
>
>These dreadful symbols are:

>(1) d which merely means "a little bit of."

>....

>(2) [; \int ;] which is merely a long S, and may be called (if you like) "the
sum of."

>...

Calculus Made Easy

This book is excellent and really breaks calculus down so that it is easy to digest.

Yeah, that's the one I have. I like it. For basic physics, it tells you basically what you need to do. You may need to study calculus if you haven't taken it yet. Basic integrals and derivatives is a good place to start and then you can look up what you come across later.

Calculus Made Easy is pretty good, too.