Thomas' Calculus: Early Transcendentals

I discuss this book within my review of James Stewart's Calculus: Early Transcendentals where I compare Stewart's approach and the approach of this edition of Thomas' Calculus in their discussions of limits and continuity. I rate Stewart's at 1 star. I think this book, this edition, is a clear, well organized, and even paced introduction to calculus. I am very curious about the latest edition, Thomas' Calculus Early Transcendentals (12th Edition).

Not in great condition. Pages folded some towards the back of the book. But it was satisfactory and arrived very quickly.

The book arrived within a good time frame and was in good and acceptable condition. Good service.

My school uses Stewart's Calculus-- a very boring book with few challenging problems which is also poorly worded etc. I finally asked a professor which book is the best calculus book on the market. She gave me this one and, as I said in the title, this is a great book! As someone else posted, you aren't going to learn the calculus by scanning some pages; what you get out of your studies is proportional to how much effort you put into studying. This book offers a maximal constant of proportionality! So, if you like the calculus and your current book doesn't discuss theory or is too elementary, buy this book. Or if your current book is poorly worded, buy this book. If you don't want to do work, then buy this book and tell yourself to stop being lazy!

I used this book for my single-variable integral calculus course and I must say it did an excellent job of teaching what the instructor couldn't. The problem sets are good, and if the solutions manual wasn't riddled with errors, the combination would be outstanding.