Calculus

This book is excellent.It is immediately obvious that the author understands his subject well AND can communicate his understanding clearly.It takes a traditionally feared subject and makes it clear and easy to understand. I strongly recommend this book. I am currently using it to teach my grade 11 son calculus. He finds it far clearer and easier to understand than his school calculus textbook. .

I am a reader from Czech Republic and I have to state that I have never seen a nicer book about calculus for beginners. I wish all unhappy people about this book would see books students in eastern European countrees are using. If somebody does not understand this book he should review his ability to learn mathematics. This book is written as stated above for beginners, who want quickly learn calculus without worring about proofs and theoretical background of calculus. You can find many color pictures of geometrical representation of calculus stuff, which can be sometimes quite helpful. My only complain is about exercices and review sections etc. I think it should be reduced, because some of them are really dummy. But ok, maybe it is too subjective. Please, excuse my english.

This book is perfect for anybody who wants to learn calculus from scratch. Especially if you are the kind of person who definately requires proofs for everything before you believe in it. It includes lots of rigourous and clear proofs for almost all the theorems. There are only a very few theorems not proven in here, which you will have to find in a more advanced book.It also makes an amazing reference book whenever you are doing other work. But beware, there are quite a bunch of typos, so don't take every single formula in it as definite unless you've double checked it yourself.

In all my 29 years teaching undergraduates, I have encountered few books as complete and well done as Stewart's. Every topic is first presented theoretically AND THEN illustrated through numerous, detailed and completely explained examples. Unlike most newer math texts, Stewart never relies on fancy pictures at the expense of concrete explanation, and unlike older books, doesn't just present theory and let the student attempt to figure out the problems (like Erwin Kreyszig does). A fine book!