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| Authors: Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 17386
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised, Updated, Expanded
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0312185480
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
EAN: 9780312185480
ASIN: 0312185480
Publication Date: September 1998
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| Customer Reviews:
 One of the best math book September 12, 2004
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is a book I definitely would keep for a long time, even until I go to college. I'm HS junior and taking AP calculus, with only algebra 2 as preparation from last year. I found this book is very easy to understood even for a self-taught person like me. I would recommend this book for every body who is taking calculus with or w/o proper preparation.The sample question covered broad type of calculus question you might face in the exam. I actually borrowed this book from my school library,and found it's worth to have it one at home. Now I'm gonna purchase it.
You won't really understand Calculus without this book! July 24, 2004
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
Most calculus courses are taught to college freshman by graduate students who really didn't understand the course when they were freshman being taught by graduate students who didn't understand it when they were taught, etc, etc. Once you realize that most college instructors aren't proficient in the course to teach it, then you start to realize that if you're ever going to truly understand calculus, then you better find an alternative source of knowledge. And this book is exactly that source.
Read this book before you enter one of those imposing lecture halls (or at least the appropriate chapter of this book). Then and only then will you begin to at least recognize what the instructor is saying. And hopefully you will recognize when they're saying something that is not quite right.
Calculus is not hard; it's just not easy. This book probably should have been titled Calculus Made Understandable, or Caculus Made Fun, but it wasn't. So read the book and do the problems. It will open up a whole world of enjoyment that will last a lifetime.
Remember this very important point. Math was never learned in a lecture hall --- it's only truly learned in a study hall or library doing problems over and over and over.
 Calculus made Easy May 25, 2004
9 out of 32 found this review helpful
I am now finished with Calculus II and I still don't understand the content of thisbook. It is extremely complicated and poorly written. It makes it seem that Calculus is so easy, but it's just easier studying the old fasioned way, doing homework problems.I really don't recommend this book, at least for undergrads.
Misinformation May 4, 2004
13 out of 31 found this review helpful
This book is terrible and cannot be recommended. Many of the things it says are simply wrong, like the opening discussions of 'orders of minuteness'. This book gives a lot of disinformation in attempts to simplify difficult topics, when all that is needed of these topics are clear unthreatening explanations. It does not deserve the popularity it has received for the last century. For a much better book to help a struggling student of introductory calculus, I can to no end highly recommend How to Ace Calculus: The Streetwise Guide by Colin Adams, et al.
just take a class and get a normal book April 13, 2004
12 out of 58 found this review helpful
if there are shortcuts to learning calculus this isn't one of them.
Its much easier to just do it the normal way, take a class.BTW, who on earth decided that the flaming leftist Noam Chomsky is a good person to quote on the back cover of a Calculus book?
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