|  | Author: Mark Ryan
Publisher: For Dummies
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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Edition: 1st
Pages: 384
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ISBN: 0764524984
Dewey Decimal Number: 515
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Publication Date: May 1, 2003
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 it doesn't work November 2, 2007
Ingeborg Oppenheimer
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
for me there has to be a "calculus for pre-dummies", because "calculus for dummies" is not adequate. i had all the basic math courses in high school and college but could not grasp the concepts as presented in these books. for one thing, symbols are not adequately explicated, and if you don't understand symbols in the various types of math, you are hopelessly lost - or at least i am. the one redeeming feature is the humor injected into the explanations.
 calc for dummies October 11, 2007
Joshua Hofer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
it helped me alot to understand what is going on or why im doing something for calc. when you understand you can you dont get as confused so you can learn more efficiently.
 Great Book for High Schoolers - College Maybe September 22, 2007
SimonSays (Washington, DC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Currently enrolled in college Calculus (not liberal arts version) and though this book reads very well and is very informative, it's not nearly as indepth or complex as the content I have in my textbook and am encountering in class.
Would highly recommend the book for high school, as a primer/review, but keep in mind it's not going to provide the direct keys to mastering college mathematics department level Calculus.
Calculus for Dummies by mark ryan. having fun learning calculus August 24, 2007
Tobago Tim (Maryland USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am sure that you will be able to tell from reading this that I do not write book reviews for a living. Nevertheless, I am going to give this one a try. My reason for buying Calculus for Dummies is that I went through high school and college without ever taking a calculus course. In graduate school, I decided that I needed to understand this thing called Calculus. I found myself in a classroom filled with freshmen undergrads memorizing the definition of a "limit". This definition apparently needed to memorized verbatim. I tended to fail quizzes by not putting a comma in the correct place. I dropped the course. I wanted to know what Calculus does and how it does it, and I was stymied by definitions before I ever knew what Calculus is about.
I have now read and thoroughly enjoyed Mark Ryan's book, Calculus for Dummies. He does exactly what I wanted. Quoting from the page facing Chapter 1, "In this part... I answer the oft-asked questions, "What is calculus?," "What is it good for?," and "How does it work?" I was hooked. This book approaches the subject the way that my brain was ready to receive it. I went through the entire book, and, as I did, I kept coming across examples in my own experience which I knew were analyzed with calculus.
I bought another copy of the book for my teenage neice who will be taking calculus in her sophomore year of college this fall. I hope she finds the time to read at least the first chapter. For me this first chapter de-mystified this branch of mathematics and allowed me to study it through practical applications and totally in the abstract. Had I had this book when taking the course that I mentioned above. I might have memorized the definition for the purpose of passing the test, because with Mark Ryan's book, I would already have known where we were going with that definition.
Far better than ponderous academic texts August 24, 2007
E. Mitchell (Spokane, WA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I took college calculus 30 years ago. Wanting to refresh my memory, I first looked at my original and massive college textbook. Comprehensive but indecipherable. An academic tomb written to prove every theorem in the calculus - nice if you are a math major but not very helpful for those interested in applying calculus to real world problems quickly. I then found Calculus for Dummies which gets right to the key concepts in an accessible and direct fashion. The author's sense of humor is also helpful. With Ryan's book, you'll learn how to do calculus and solve problems. Great book. Highly recommended. While I scored highest in the class a long time ago, I had to study so hard - I only wish we had this book and graphic calculators 30 years ago and math class would have been a bit easier!
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