Recommendations for a Calculus III Book?

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<p>Any good Calc III textbooks out there? The book required for my math class is really bad (typos everywhere; questions not hard at all)... I'm looking for a textbook with good notes and challenging practice problems, especially for the following list of topics:</p>

<p>Matrices
Higher Order Differential Equations
Systems of Linear Equations
Seroes Solutions of Linear Equations
Vector Calculus</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Get a book by Larson- My calc teacher is using a earlier Calc book (Calc AB) but it is a great book. Also, she went to a conference and this book was the one they most highly recommended. Larson (publisher Houghton Mifflin) is the way to go. Intermediate to challenging problems, and thorough explanations.</p>

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<p>thomas’ calculus</p>

<p>everything you mentioned on your list + more</p>

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<p>My school uses [url=<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-9th-Dale-Varberg/dp/0131429248]Varberg[/url”>http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-9th-Dale-Varberg/dp/0131429248]Varberg[/url</a>] for Calc I-III and the intermediate calculations are pretty good but certainly not thorough. If you need your hand held it’s not the book for you, but there is also quite a variety of problems from the analytical to the very serious applications and at most ranges of difficulty.</p>

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<p>Easton722- I’m a high school senior taking Calc AB/BC, and my class uses Thomas’ Calculus. It is awesome.</p>

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<p>Gilbert Strang’s text: online and free.</p>

<p>[Free</a> Online MIT Course Materials | Supplemental Resources | MIT OpenCourseWare](<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/Strang/strangtext.htm]Free”>http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/Strang/strangtext.htm)</p>

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<p>use stewart. it doesn’t talk down to you, makes a lot of sense, and explains hard concepts in several different ways. thomas also has a nice range of problems, even if you already know calculus some of them will be difficult. i really didn’t like larson (what we had to use in high school) since the textbook read more like an outline than an actual text.</p>

<p>[Amazon.com:</a> Calculus: Early Transcendentals: James Stewart: Books](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-James-Stewart/dp/0495554650/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234586758&sr=8-4]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Early-Transcendentals-James-Stewart/dp/0495554650/ref=pd_bbs_sr_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234586758&sr=8-4)</p>

<p>oh, and if you’re up for a real challenge, try apostol</p>

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<p>I agree with Calculus by James Stewart. It’s really good.</p>