Thomas' Calculus

I learned calculus but then didn't need to use it for decades in my work in computer science. Now I need it again including things that aren't well covered in many basic books such as partial differential equations. I tried using the calculus book from school (Loomis, also a very good book) Calculus for dummies, as well as others I found at the library. But a friend recommended this book and the difference is just amazing. Things make sense in this book that are harder to comprehend in others. It's hard to explain why, I think part of it may be that there are things that are obvious to mathematicians that aren't obvious to the rest of us and that this book does a good job of pointing these out where as other books tend to explain details without making the general structure clear. But for whatever reason I find this book very understandable compared to others. Plus there are tons of exercises and additional materials.

Thank you very much! This product arrived on time, and it was in perfect condition!

Lost my calculus book from 1954. The review was good. I bought it, & I like it.

This book, and maybe all textbooks on Amazon, is apparently limited to access through only one device. I can read other kindle books on my phone, PC at work, or Mac at home - even on my Kindle reader. This however, I can only have on one computer at a time. I tried to open this at home, and it refused to let me because I first opened it at work.I could not access the book I just paid 90 bucks for because I could not delete it from my work PC remotely! Deregistered the device - still could not open it. Went to content and requested it delivered to my Mac, which is said it did, and then it still denied access. This is RIDICULOUS. I HAVE a hard copy of this book already and bought the Kindle because I am a serious technical designer and want my Calculus reference at my fingertips at all times and apparently this is a s^(^*&^ way to do it.Next time, I will do what I did to my Structural Analysis textbook. Saw off the spine and run it through my office's fancy 2-sided scanner in about 10 minutes and then run OCR text recognition on it. I may no longer have a bound hard copy, but I can access this reference from anywhere now.$90 for a non-physical copy of a book they wrote 20 years ago. Absolute racket these textbook authors are running. I'm out.

Used this to get through Cal 1 and it totally came in handy

Really good resource. Needed for u.c.

I teach single-variable calculus at the college I work at, so I can only comment on that part of the textbookThomas’ Calculus presents the standard material one would expect to find in a calculus course. Its explanations seem clear, and it has a wide variety of problems that I can select from, with odd answers in the back. That being said, there are a few weaknesses.One major frustration is that it does not present the derivative of the exponential function and the logarithm until Chapter 7. I’ve heard people try to defend that decision (because they think that the natural logarithm is in some way “properly” defined as an antiderivative of 1 / x), but a lot of students outside of the math major will take Calculus I and not Calculus II, and having students pass your differential calculus course, but not know how to differentiate e^x, is clearly not acceptable. Instructors can of course elect to cover the material earlier—they almost always do—but there won’t be any problems involving exponentials or logarithms in the derivative homework, so they won’t get the practice that they should, and I see otherwise solid students struggle to use logarithms as an integration tool as a result.Another major complaint is the lack of applications in the integration material. For example, improper integrals are presented, but the connection with the net change theorem—that an integral of a derivative from a to infinity can be thought of as the total change that will occur “in the future”—is not made. Unless you’re going to cover differential equations, which would eat up a lot of time, instructors are basically on their own terms of trying to convince students that the material is worthwhile. The 13th edition did add a section on probability, which is welcome.

The book itself is exactly what it claims to be and works with my sons college class although when I purchased this new not used I thought it would come with the online access code that it’s supposed to come with. I now have to purchase the access code and spend an additional $100 just to be able to use this book online with his class. His teacher requires the online access. I will never purchase from this company again since I feel like I got ripped off.

The book is great, well written and well explained. However, when I took a peek at the answers at the very end, there are only answers for the odd-numbered exercises. As a non-student, I find it ridiculous. This book cost a lot in CAD$ and I can't even have all the answers, even when I asked them on their website. At the very beginning on this book, they tell you how to get all the answers but this is for teachers only. If you are not a student nor a teacher, you are #$%^&*(. Also, I already discovered that 2 answers at the end are wrong. For the 14th edition, this is a real shame (I don't even have a degree). This is my first time buying a Pearson book and the last time.