Calculus For Dummies by Mark Ryan
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Book Reviews of Calculus For Dummies
Book Review: Calculus for dummies is great
Summary: 5 Stars
I had this sitting on my shelf for 6 months before i used it. I am 2/3 of the through calc 2. I wish I had this book for calc 1. I got a C and this definitely would have helped. I picked it up and pre read the series chapter (which unfortunatly is at the very end). I am understanding the material better and getting through the homework faster because of it. Once again I wish I had read this sooner. Use this as a supplement to your text, not a replacement. This book doesn't cover the very end of cacl 2 though. We are doing power fourier, taylor, and maclauren series and this book doesn't cover those.Book Review: Fantastic overview before taking my College Calculus class!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Dear Mr. Ryan,
I picked up "Calculus for Dummies" this morning in preparation for an
upcoming college calculus class and I'm THOROUGHLY enjoying it! I am
literally laughing out loud - thank you for making math fun. I really
enjoy how you connect with your reader.
Signed,
Laughing in Farmington, MN
p.s. My favorite quote so far... "Subtracting fractions works like
adding fractions except that instead of adding, you subtract.
Insights like this are the reason they pay me the big bucks."
Book Review: Excellent Book
Summary: 5 Stars
As a freshman college student, I purchased this book to help me understand what my awful professor and text book were trying to say. This book does a fantastic job at bringing calculus "down to earth", to quote Mark Ryan. It eliminates the pages of proofs my text book had and cuts right to the chase, explaining calculus in plain English. This book actually TEACHES calculus in a fun way.This book is worth every penny if you are a student. If you're a beginning calculus student, you will probably get more use out of this book than your text, as did I.
Book Review: Helped me through AP Calculus
Summary: 5 Stars
The year I took AP Calculus (AB), the teacher who normally taught the class left and the new teacher was really bad at teaching. If it weren't for this book, I would never have passed the class. It explains the basic concepts so they are easy to understand and the book is easy and even fun to read, unlike my calculus textbook, which might as well have been written in latin. I highly recommend this to anyone struggling with Calculus. I got a 4 on the AP when a quarter of my class dropped the class before 2nd semester because our teacher was so hard to follow.Book Review: Great book!
Summary: 5 Stars
Calculus for Dummies
This book takes careful reading if you date back to the forties and second year high school algebra, but put some effort into it and you can certainly gain more than a little insight into the subject. It is well written, holds one's attention, and gives the reader a laugh now and then - a critical element in any book, in my view. I got this book to satisfy my own curiosity, and not for some technical or scholastic effort.
It works.