<p>I am taking AP Calculus next year, but I think that over the summer I would like to do some studying of the subject on my own. Does anyone recommend a certain book from which I can learn and understand Calculus? It doesn't have to be a textbook per se, but any book that explains the topic.</p>
<p>Looking through the PR review book, I thought that was sufficient and much more easy to understand than our actual textbook.</p>
<p>Stewart's Calculus. It's rigorous, but has a lot of well-placed pictures that explain concepts really well. (I think it explained the delta-epsilon definition of limit in like three different ways?)</p>
<p>Stewarts is good for learning the material and suitable for AP. I have found that the exercises in Apostol Calculus are more challenging than those in Stewarts. But Stewarts does give all the derivations and an abundance of examples and it's also accessible so it's probably what you are looking for. </p>
<p>But if you have taken precalc and or understand what a limit is intuitively, you would probably be much better off finding a copy of feynman's lectures and reading volume 1 chapter 8 on motion. Feynman explains the motivation for the discovery of differential calculus and proceeds to show how a derivative works without all the fluff a calc text would include.</p>
<p>I have a calc book by Anton. It really explains things well. </p>
<p>However, my calc class uses the book by Stewart, and I despise it. It tries to teach through examples, and that is just not enough for me to grasp concepts.</p>
<p>And what would be the best book for pre-calc ?</p>
<p>i use stewart also. Us the pr review book to supplement it.</p>