Calculus
by James Stewart · first published 1986
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James Stewart's CALCULUS texts are widely renowned for their mathematical precision and accuracy, clarity of exposition, and outstanding examples and problem sets. Millions of students worldwide have explored calculus through Stewart's trademark style, while instructors have turned to his approach time and time again. In the Eighth Edition of CALCULUS, Stewart continues to set the standard for the course while adding carefully revised content. The patient explanations, superb exercises, focus on problem solving, and carefully graded problem sets that have made Stewart's texts best-sellers cont
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Calculus, by James Stewart. I recommend you buy a dead tree copy of an old edition (I paid $5 for mine, shipped. I don't know how they made money off that sale.) Might not be the best book, but it covers everything…
on “6.S094: Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars” ↗…a bit at that but if that is your cup of tea .. My personal philosophy is to develop my mathematical intuition. I like applied problems. I really liked my high school math text: https://www.amazon.ca/Calculus-First-Course-James-Stewart/dp... You can get old versions of these btw ... basic math has been the same since Newton :-p I also highly recommend the MIT course of Gilbert Strang on linear algebra.
on “Ask HN: How do I learn mathematics starting from almost no knowledge?” ↗…Architecture and Operating Systems: http://www.amazon.ca/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-John... http://www.amazon.ca/Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operating... Mathematics: http://www.amazon.ca/Calculus-James-Stewart/dp/0495011606 http://www.amazon.ca/Introductory-Statistics-Prem-S-Mann/dp/... http://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Mathematical-Cryptography-... Networking and Systems: http://www.amazon.ca/Computer-Networks-5th-Andrew-Tanenbaum/...…
on “The software development final exam: Algorithms and Data Structures” ↗…list of ones I remember explicitly - along with Silberschatz & Galvin on operating systems (with the ridiculous dinosaurs on the cover), Oppenheim and Willsky's Signals and Systems, EOPL, and Stewart's Calculus.
on “All About Circuits” ↗Realistically, it's money they'll use to buy the Stewart's Calculus ($200) [1] (which, let's be clear, is covering 350 year old subject matter). And then they'll use their financial aid to buy beer. All of these intro texts (at $150-$200) are broken. They do not go into…
on “College Textbook Prices: Out of Control” ↗Stewart, Calculus, at a mere $285. Or like $5 for the fifth edition. He's very readable. Strang is a fine lecturer, especially his Linear Algebra videos. But Linear Algebra Done Right is much better than Strang. MIT,…
on “Programming books you might want to consider reading” ↗You might be a bit out of date here. Textbooks are absurdly expensive these days relative to computers; Stewart's "Calculus" is $289[0], for example. That's about the right range for a new low end laptop or a used mid-range laptop. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-James-Stewart/dp/1285740629/
on “'Clean your desk': My Amazon interview experience” ↗I looked up the homeowner's calculus book and realized it was the one I used in college: http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-James-Stewart/dp/0534359493
on “An 'Accordion' of Wood and Glass” ↗…people I knew would more or less blow off the homework and just ace the tests, and thus they would often end up getting a B- even though they probably understood the material better than anyone else. My Calculus II class graded mostly on the stupid homework (from James Stewart's book, no less) and attendance! Unless you care enough to work hard in highschool and have enough money to go to a school like MIT,…
on “Many gifted children fail academically” ↗…kind of my perpetual read this within 10 years list. I'm also interested in literature but prefer reading to enrich my knowledge and skills as opposed to reading for leisure : Maths: James Stewart's Precalculus Spivak's Calculus How to Solve It Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid I Am a Strange Loop Introduction to Linear Algebra Euclid's Elements The Principia: The Authoritative Translation…
on “Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?” ↗…Mathematics". As far as textbooks go for this type of material, which do you all like? I own Rosen's famous book ( https://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Applications-Ken... ), but it's the "James Stewart's Calculus" of Discrete Mathematics books. I purchased some really old books too, but I haven't yet found one that I like a lot (I settled for a Dover text that's mostly passable). For the specific topic of set…
on “Mathematics for Computer Science - Lecture Notes” ↗…tutored people taking Calc 1, 2 and 3 at several universities in the US. There's no exact standard that I'm aware of, but they tend to closely align at different universities. Dividing James Stewart's Calculus into three parts is a reasonable guide: you can see the contents on Amazon preview. I'd expect solving first order linear differential equations would be solidly in Calc 2. * https://www.amazon.co.uk/Calculus-Transcendentals-Internatio...
on “Paul's Online Math Notes” ↗Thank you! We actually made the course ourselves, following James Stewart's Calculus and our own approach to teaching these topics (we're two PhD students). We wrote everything in English first, then translated it into other languages. AI accelerated our workflow, we prompted the visuals…
on “Show HN: Open Computer-Animated Multivariable Calculus Course in 6 Languages” ↗Calculus by James Stewart, Daniel Clegg, and Saleem Watson https://www.stewartcalculus.com
on “Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus” ↗> book publishers to milk students with single-access codes and never-ending "new" editions to their books, The best example of this is James Stewart's Calculus textbooks. It is priced so high and made him so much money that he built a $24 million "Integral House"! Where the money from your Stewart calculus book goes - https://www.mprnews.org/story/2011/04/18/where-the-money-fro...…
on “Align AI and Mathematics–To Something Else” ↗