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 enlarge | Authors: Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 9778
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised, Updated, Expanded
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0312185480
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
EAN: 9780312185480
ASIN: 0312185480
Publication Date: September 1998
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 less than expected February 19, 2006
4 out of 19 found this review helpful
I believe Martin Gardner was mentioned as having something to do with this book so I thought it would be very good, and someone else said it helped them so much in calculus. I am a calculus teacher and I just don't get much out of it that I think will really help the kids.
 Argh! It's Calculus again XP January 22, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
What makes Calculus so easy? Well, this book thoroughly explains how to solve those problems which made others stumped when taking a first glance. See, I'm a fourteen year old boy who loves math, and shooting to become one of the classmates in BC Calculus in my senior year. So I decided to take a glance at the dreaded topic of Calculus. Many days ago, I look through other Calculus books and I start to say, "Argh! I can't solve these darn problems!" Right now, I am currently reading this book and I will tell you my deepest opinions about this awesome book!
The book starts out with the basics of Calculus, in which you will learn in PreCalculus, a course many will take in their junior or senior year. This includes the true meaning of a function, the technique of solving limits, and an easier way of finding derivatives. Then it moves on to real Calculus, including finding the maxima and the minima of a function, and partial fractions. These two topics are the ones I've mastered so far, and I still have a long journey. I highly recommend this book to High Schoolers including Freshmen, so they can get an idea what Calculus is. With the help of Calculus Made Easy, written by Silvanus P. Thompson, I'm positive that I'll become a classmate in BC Calculus!
 Calculus Made Easy October 5, 2005
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
The book gives the reader a very good understanding of the subject without going into extreme detail. A person with an average ability in algebra can easily comprehend the subjects.
Wish I had read this before taking calc September 26, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I just bought this book to refresh my memory since I havn't used calculus much since I took calculus in college. In school we used Stewart which I never fully understood. After reading this book I feel like I understand calculus much better than I ever did. I wish my calculus prof had reccomended this as supplemental reading material.
Why isn't this the standard text on calculus? August 4, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is excellent both as a fresh and simple approach to a tough subject and a standard referance for anybody who needs to use calculus but - like me - can't retain list of formulas in their head. I took two quarters of college calculus and needed a third but the national guard sent me to Iraq for a year and a half. Naturally I was worried about steppping back into my courses and having to keep up with sharp freshmen right out of highschool honors programs. So I bought some textbooks to self-study. I have complete confidence in my ability to tackle my remaining math requirements after I demobilize from reading and doing the problems in this book on my own.
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