Calculus- Early Transcendentals (with CD-ROM) Description:

Calculus: Early Transcendentals (with CD-ROM) review:
1 stars (Complaint) - It has been nearly a month and I still haven't received the book yet. Could you please review the order and return my money? Thanks.
1 stars (Who is this book written for?) - This book does not seem to be written for students! This book seems like an "Oh-Ho, look at how smart I am, let me see if I can confuse Mathematics Doctorates everywhere! Students, ha! I will impress all of my colleagues with this little gem!" Granted that reading math is not the easiest thing to do, but this is not an amiable book for students, I would be more inclined to be taught with a Schaum's Outline than this! This seems to be a trend with mathematics and science text books though. Only written to impress others in the field with little care for someone trying to actually LEARN the material. Thank you for your time.
1 stars (Poor excuse for a math book) - Maybe I was just spoiled in high school with good math books (such as Triola's Statistics book and Sullivan's Precalc text). This book has too many faults to recommend.



The only plus to this book is the movies on the green CD-ROM. However, they only explain the most basic of problems and can be worthless when doing the exercises in the book. A red CD-ROM was also included and seems to be useless.



An example--chapter two is very poorly done. I've had to resort to other sources to understand limits. There is too much emphasis on physics and not enough on math itself in section 2.1.



The example problems in the book are hard to understand. It's a good thing I have a great professor. They seem to be verbose and the book reminds me more of Deitel's awful programming books than of a math text. The practice problems are a joke since the book doesn't really say how to do 70% of them. Color would be great for visual learners who like to take the step by step approach (rarely practiced here; quite a few steps get skipped) and prefer not to read it in paragraph form. Honestly, what kind of math book is written like a novel?



If you don't go to class and don't consult outside material there's a good chance you'll get an F in the course. If you are stuck with this book, which is way too big and could easily be half the size if the verboseness and pictures were eliminated, you can get an A as long as you pay attention to your professor and consult other sources for help.



James Stewart should have stuck to acting :-)