<p>can anyone gimme sum ideas about this calculus book?
Calculus (with Tools for Enriching Calculus Video CD-ROM, iLrn Homework, and vMentor) by James Stewart</p>
<p>I'm a college fresman and i'd like to know more about this book. what 's its content?</p>
<p>It's a pretty standard post-reform calculus book. It covers all the material that should be covered for college calculus, from limits to series.</p>
<p>it goes from cal I to cal III. I used it personally.</p>
<p>I used it from Calc I to III and it was okay. It's a pretty thick book if you buy the one with both editions (single variable and multivariable). The good thing is that it's so standard that so many things have been made for it (a very big plus).</p>
<p>Its better then other options out there. I like it a heck of a lot better than Hughes- Howlett.</p>
<p>I used Calculus: Early Transcendentals by Stewart. i think its a pretty good book.</p>
<p>Used same book as poster above, excellent text.</p>
<p>AVOID THIS BOOK AT ALL COSTS.</p>
<p>Unless you have a really good professor.</p>
<p>I had a bad professor and this book and wound up dropping the class, and this comes from a guy who got A's in math before taking calc and got high scores on standardized calc tests long before coming to college--back when Algebra II was my highest math.</p>
<p>It gives you a ton of practice problems, but no real explanation on how to do them. The price of the book is highway robbery (I think it's ~$150) and the $15 Calc for Dummies explains stuff better.</p>
<p>If you already have some knowledge of calc, it might be okay, but if you're coming right off a Precalc/Trig course it is NO GOOD.</p>
<p>And this goes for all Stewart books. A friend of mine had to use one for College Algebra (thank goodness we used K. Ellayn Martin-Gay's in our class...and yes, that's really her name) and he got nothing out of it. This guy isn't too bad at math either.</p>
<p>Jimmy Stewart should have stuck to acting...</p>
<p>Each to his own, but I have to disagree with MacTech92.</p>
<p>Almost all new hardcover textbooks cost over $100 now if purchased at a college bookstore. That is the norm and Stewart's Calculus is no exception.</p>
<p>Virtually all students who take single-variable calculus have no prior background knowledge. Stewart does not assume that his readers have any prior [knowledge], just like every other author. He covers it from the beginning - limits - and continues through.</p>
<p>Stewart isn't my favorite, but his text is fine.</p>
<p>I've never read Stewart, but I liked Thomas/Finney a lot</p>
<p>i disagree with mactec too. this book was fine for me and i didnt take precal or trig (i taught myself). i did get a B in the class but that was because of my apathy.</p>
<p>Stewart is fine, I used it for all 3 levels of calc and never had any trouble.</p>