What's a solid

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<p>Calculus book for a person who's going to study calculus for enrichment?</p>

<p>Do not recommend the one by Demana. I looked at it and thought it was inadequate.</p>

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<p>Haha, I thought you meant what the term “solid” meant at first.</p>

<p>And for enrichment? Nice. </p>

<p>Oh, and I have no clue. Google and Amazon are your friends.</p>

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<p>“Haha, I thought you meant what the term “solid” meant at first.”</p>

<p>^Lol, me too. I was thinking of saying “it’s something that’s not liquid or gas”.</p>

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<p>I would recommend Spivak’s Calculus on Manifolds. ;o</p>

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<p>I would recommend googling for textbooks or going to the bookstore, you overachieving ****. LoL Just Kiddinggggg, maybe not.</p>

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<p>Calculus for Dummies</p>

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<p>Not that book. To be honest, that thing sucks.</p>

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<p>Principles of Mathematical Analysis should help too.</p>

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<p>wait, is there a calculus for dummies? that’d be cute</p>

<p>I’d just do it on my own. Like, learn the unit circle and integrals and anti and then read up on problems via internet. There are plenty of good sites.</p>

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<p>And because I’m lazy to make a new thread, what are some good physics books to study for enrichment?</p>

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<p>^Feynman’s Lectures</p>

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<p>^^ A lot of people use University Physics by Young and Freedman for Physics C as their class textbook. It’s pretty thick, and you should probably pick and choose which concepts you want to study if you’re doing this on your own.</p>

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<p>I dislike University Physics</p>

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<p>How about chemistry now?</p>

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<p>Zumdahl? I forgot what textbook I used last quarter</p>

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<p>Zumdahl’s good, but there’s another book, one of whose authors is Brown, which is superior.</p>

<p>EDIT: Yeah, LeMay and Brown. Maybe Miller instead of Brown. But definitely LeMay.</p>

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<p>Spivak’s calculus (not the manifold one).</p>

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<p>Who needs Calculus when you have Analysis?</p>

<p>Baby Rudin ftw</p>

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<p>[MIT</a> OpenCourseWare | Supplemental Resources | RES.18-001 Calculus, Spring 2005 | Textbook](<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/resources/RES-18-001Spring-2005/Textbook/index.htm]MIT”>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/resources/RES-18-001Spring-2005/Textbook/index.htm)
[Elementary</a> Calculus](<a href=“http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html]Elementary”>http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html)
<a href=“http://www.mth.pdx.edu/~erdman/PTAC/problemtext_pdf.pdf[/url]”>http://www.mth.pdx.edu/~erdman/PTAC/problemtext_pdf.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>All are legally released.</p>

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<p>If you’re just starting out, try out the follow texts. Now they might seem ancient, so you might not find them in a local bookstore. But they are absolute gems, especially for the beginner:</p>

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<li><p>Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Thompson (NOT the latest watered-down edition, the one from the 1960s)</p></li>
<li><p>Foundations of Modern Analysis by Jean Dieudonne</p></li>
<li><p>Calculus by George B. Thomas (Classic 2nd edition)</p></li>
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