The Complete Idiot's Guide to Calculus, 2nd Edition Paperback – 27 June 2006

I love it!

I haven't finished reading it, but what I have checked it looks really good.This book also was revised, corrected and augmented!From part 1 the only thing I don't like a lot is how he explains the special angles in the trigonometry part (a teacher explained to me an easier method that doesn't recall a lot in memorization). However, in the other topics I think are described in an excellent and easy to learn way.P.S. I'm an engineer :D.

You need to good at your old algebra to manage this book. So in itself, its insufficient fr some to become OK at calculus.

Before you buy this book, you should understand what it is and what it isn't. First, what isn't this book? It's not a textbook that is going to give you rigorous practice in calculus, and it's not a couple hundred pages of bound fairy dust that will magically make you good at calculus if you believe hard enough.What is it? I think of it as everything a good calculus textbook should tell you, explained in words rather than implied with long, difficult-to-follow proofs. I'm relearning calculus after nearly a decade of forgetting it, and let me tell you: a standard textbook was getting me nowhere, even when I tried using some of the many online resources out there. I am generally pretty good at learning from textbooks, but wading through math texts feels about as useful as cleaning my glasses in a dust storm. In addition, calculus can be a bear to understand. This book has been a great investment so far--Kelley explains in relatively simple vocabulary and with simple examples how calculus works and how to solve different kinds of problems, and his only expectations are that you already have a basic understanding of trig and algebra (and he even reviews some of that stuff as well).As I said above, this book is not going to give you rigorous practice in calculus. There just aren't enough problems and solutions in it for that. However, if you use it in conjunction with a college calculus text and/or some of the many problem sets available online and in print, you may very well be unstoppable--or at least good enough at calculus to appear that way to the average person.The Complete Idiot's Guide to Calculus has been extremely useful to me so far, and I'm making progress much more quickly than if I had relied only on a conventional textbook. So even though I'm relearning calculus rather than starting from scratch, I believe this book would be a great investment for anyone learning calculus, whether you're doing it in a classroom setting or mustering up the self-discipline to do it yourself.

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