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Title: Thomas' Calculus, 11th Edition (Thomas Series)
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Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
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| Thomas' Calculus, 11th Edition (Thomas Series) by Addison Wesley Stay away from this book! |
Examples are too hard to follow which makes this book difficult to read. I spent the whole semester crashing my head on the wall because of this book.
Better get Calculus by James Stewart |
| Thomas' Calculus, 11th Edition (Thomas Series) by Addison Wesley Good, but could be better |
I just completed the Calc series using Thomas Calculus. In Calc I, the instructor commented that we would use this text and that it wasn't the best or the worst (a VERY safe claim to make). I would agee with that.
I found the instructional text adequate but we experienced several cases where the solution to end-of-section problems was not the technique being covered in the section.
I used the softbound vol 1 & 2. You can save some money if you are taking a semester or two of calculus, but if you intend to cover Calc III & IV, I recommend buying the hard bound. |
| Thomas' Calculus, 11th Edition (Thomas Series) by Addison Wesley One of the better ones. |
| My boyfriend took two semesters of Calc with this book and was able to essentially self teach himself all of it. The examples are well explained and the problems reflect the section material very well. |
| Thomas' Calculus, 11th Edition (Thomas Series) by Addison Wesley Great Graphics = Easy Teaching |
I took calculus back in college in the early 1970s and I was very pleased to see how much color graphics have done to make this subject understandable. I was using this book to tutor my daughter and I found it much easier than I thought it would be to teach her about the Taylor Series (for example) because of the clever use of color on the graph (showing how fit improved as more terms were added to the series). The book was very readable and seemed to be rigorous (I'm not a mathematician, but I couldn't see that anything was missing).
Be careful if you want a book on second order differential equations. There are two problems: One small problem is that this book sometimes has a chapter on second order differential equations and sometimes it doesn't. I'm not talking about two editions either...the 11th edition may or may not have that material (I think it is chapter 17). I suppose they had two printings so beware of the used copies if you want that material. Also, the table on second order differential equations has an error in it (I think it said k when it should have said ki...). |
| Thomas' Calculus, 11th Edition (Thomas Series) by Addison Wesley Terrible Textbook |
| While I understand it is difficult to write an advanced math textbook without weird notation, this textbook seems to be written for PhD's who already know calculus. The examples in the chapters aren't always that good. The practice problems give very little practice. As one problem is completed successfully and you move on, the next problem has a little twist to it that isn't covered in the text. The student is left on his own to figure out how to negotiate the twist and solve the problem. You never feel like you've really practiced because you rarely get more than two or three basic problems solved. I believe it is a classic example of college textbook scam of using a new edition each year that adds a lot to some professor's wallet and little to the progress of the student. |
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