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• agjacobson · Apr 18, 2017 · Recommends

  Quick Calculus by Daniel Kleppner Also, if you can find an ancient copy of Thomas Calculus when it was two volumes. Buy the first volume. Solve all the odd problems, the solutions are in the back. That's how I learned!…

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• aj7 · Jul 29, 2021 · Recommends

  I’d also recommend “Quick Calculus,” by Kleppner. It has helped a lot of people. I would search for an early, used addition, as textbooks tend to get more elaborate and worse pedagogically as they are “improved.”

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• galdosdi · May 19, 2024 · Recommends

  …time at first, and persevered by sampling a good half dozen different books till I found one that would make things click. These are my credentials for making the following recommendation: Get the book Quick Calculus by Kleppner and Ramsey. Nothing else I used came close, for developing intuition about the concepts when they're fresh and new. Once they have mastered that, any good book will do. James Stewart's is…

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• soniman · Mar 12, 2018 · Recommends

  I've done this as an adult and what worked was Schaum's plus online videos. The idea that you will work through long textbooks is not realistic. Also an algebra cheat sheet esp the common algebra errors. Quick Calculus is also a good book. http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/cheat_table.aspx

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• rml · May 5, 2008 · Mentions

  …do they provide a single service. Instead, they charge others for the right to use "their" ideas. It sends a bit of a chill down my spine -- I'm trying to imagine what my copy of Kleppner & Ramsey's 'Quick Calculus' (about a $20 book) would have cost if Newton had 'patented' Calculus, and if his (hypothetical, avaricious) descendants and their attorneys had insisted on their 'right' to a cut of the profits.

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• bikenaga · Apr 19, 2024 · Mentions

  …like you're trying to do surgery while wearing boxing gloves. Anyway, there are other calc books which have similar intents, though different styles. Here are two: Daniel Kleppner and Norman Ramsey, "Quick Calculus" - We used this for math background when I was taking AP Physics in high school. The physics textbook was Resnick and Halliday, which uses calc throughout. It is not particularly intuitive, but the "programmed…

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