Calculus book

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
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<p>Hi, since caltech uses tom apostol's calculus book, I have a question for you guys to answer. Is there a difference between the 1st edition and the 2nd edition of the book? Thanks</p>

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<p>Yes.</p>

<p>To quote the second edition of Apostol: "The second edition differs from the first in many respects"</p>

<p>It shouldn't be hard to find the second edition given that it came out in 1967...</p>

<p>It also may be confusing that there is both a Volume I and Volume II in both editions. For Math 1a, you will need Volume I, edition 2.</p>

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<p>How do you know what textbooks are used for the core classes? Can frosh pretty much wait until they get their schedules? Thanks.</p>

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<p>You can check on Caltech's bookstore website, when you go to buy books for a particular class it will tell you what book is required. I didn't check to be honest, because it seems like Apostol has been used forever for Math 1a. </p>

<p>And yes, it's ok to wait until schedules are received--often, it's even better to wait because many upperclassman will want to offload their books (cough me cough haha)</p>

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<p>Do you know what books are used for 2a & 2b? Thanks.</p>

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<p>Link to the bookstore textbook listing:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.bookstore.caltech.edu/caltech/buy_courselisting.asp?mscssid=5H8SS8TB56F89M95XV6G8VFEBFUSATN0%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bookstore.caltech.edu/caltech/buy_courselisting.asp?mscssid=5H8SS8TB56F89M95XV6G8VFEBFUSATN0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>You can also find Apostol as a free PDF online...</p>

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<p>You can get lots of Caltech textbooks for free as files on your computer. If you're like me, and used to reading hundreds of pages a day on a monitor, it's even preferable to normal text form.</p>

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<p>whoa cool, could you enlighten us on how we'd go about doing that?</p>

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<p>Are you an incoming Caltech student? If so, PM me. </p>

<p>I don't think it's completely illegal, but it's a bit of a gray area. I'd rather not post about it on an open forum.</p>

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<p>I only got Apostol vols. 1 and 2 via torrents, Boyce/DePrima, and a number of other books. But none of the torrents, not even physics complete, has any of the Caltech intermediate Phys 2ab books. :( (though the last time I used them was like a year ago)</p>

<p>Online reading is also quite useful when you want to copy stuff (which is why I torrent books that I already bought)</p>

<p>Discussing torrents seems to be done with impunity here. Linking to them is a grayer area. Just search for "math complete and "physics complete". > 4 GBs of textbooks by those.</p>

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<p>Wasn't talking about torrents, in case anyone else was wondering.</p>