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Best practical guide I have seen.
I have purchased two copies of this book and lost both to people I loaned them to.It is a gem! If I can find another copy, I am going to chain it to my wrist! jfales@olivetnet.edu ... Read more

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Title: A Genealogy of the Descendants of John, Christopher and William Osgood, Who Came From England and Settld in New England Early in the Seventeenth CenturyPublisher: Salem, Mass. : Salem PressPublication date: 1894Subjects: Osgood familyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of William Osgood Aydelotte, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thomson Gale. The length of the entry is 570 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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A good book for its time
This book is pretty old, early 70's, but it has some good information on snowshoes and snowshoeing. I like to read how the old timers did things, life was simplier back then.The book has an interesting section on how tobuild your own snowshoes.There is a better book on this subject by GilGilpatrick, but it is still good information.I enjoy reading this book,it is a real pleasure. ... Read more

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The Third Edition of CALCULUS reflects the strong consensus within the mathematics community for a new balance between the contemporary ideas of the original editions of this book and ideas and topics from earlier calculus books. Building on previous work, this Third Edition has the same philosophy as earlier editions but represents a new balance of topics. CALCULUS 3/e brings together the best of both new and traditional curricula in an effort to meet the needs of even more instructors teaching calculus. The author team's extensive experience teaching from both traditional and innovative books and their expertise in developing innovative problems put them in an unique position to make this new curriculum meaningful to students going into mathematics and those going into the sciences and engineering. The authors believe the new edition will work well for those departments who are looking for a calculus book that offers a middle ground for their calculus instructors.
CALCULUS 3/e exhibits the same strengths from earlier editions including the Rule of Four, an emphasis on modeling, exposition that students can read and understand and a flexible approach to technology. The conceptual and modeling problems, praised for their creativity and variety, continue to motivate and challenge students. ... Read more

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Very complete book
this book help me so much with my job because i'm mathematics teacher in a school, and its very complete.

very good
item was recieved on time and in good condition
very happy with the purchase

Rewarding Book
If you want to learn integration techniques and become a whiz at basic computational calculus, you need another book. If you want a book that gives you a lot of proofs and tons of examples, you also probably need another book.

So why do I give the book 4 stars? The answer is _the problems_. I used this book for 3 semesters of calculus, and I felt like _I_ actually discovered a lot of the machinery of calculus just by doing the problems. It's a great feeling to discover rather than be taught. That's what this book helps you do.

Of course, this means you will probably have to do a few more problems than the teacher assigns (unless the teacher is very in tune with the book and knows exactly which problems are related). Also, when you get to techniques of integration, you'll probably need to refer to other books for examples.This is not necessarily a bad thing, as it is always better to learn from multiple sources.

One big downside is the cost. But, unfortunately, that's a problem with all American text books.Try to get a used copy.

Oh and about the book and solution manual not giving many solutions... Don't worry about it. When you solve most of these problems, you _know_ when you get the answer because everything will click and make sense. As for integration problems, just plug 'em into your TI-89, Maple, or the free Wolfram Online Integrator to check your answers!

In summary, this is a genuinely enjoyable book for problem solvers.Don't be scared by the other reviews.They are actually correct, in a way, but are simply coming from a somewhat narrowed perspective.

Great Book!
I don't know why so many people dislike this book...I probably learn in a different manner than they do.I've had to learn most of my calculus through Stewart's Early Transcendentals book, which I found very dry and mostly uninteresting.Luckily, I bought this book while I was taking a year off and taught myself calculus, having never even heard of a limit or a derivative before.

If you like thinking about the ideas behind things, and then learning about the formalism and mathematics of it, then this book is for you.If you prefer proofs, analysis, and "learn these steps and solve these problems" examples,you'll probably want to find a different text.

I can remember, though, the JOY of actually deriving things for myself, like how to calculate the volume of a solid rotated about some line or some such nonsense, because I could understand exactly what was needed.That is how I would describe this book:It's not a book about proving theorems and making you memorize a bunch of rules.Instead, it makes you really understand the subject matter, so that you can use the ideas of calculus to solve a variety of problems, even if they're problems you have no idea how to solve when you first read through them!

That is one thing that this book taught me that I found indespensible.You don't have to know how to do something, because you might be able to figure it out yourself instead of having some professor or text book or internet article tell you how to!Perhaps this approach is a little too ambitious, and I'll admit I spent a lot of time going through this text trying to reason things out, but it was time well spent.

So I suppose my advice would be not to buy this book unless you have to (for a course), or you're really willing to go through those problems spending a lot of time thinking about how to apply the IDEAS presented in the examples and text to the problem at hand.In the latter case, I think you'll find that the time you invest in this book will give you unexpected rewards.

THE ABSOLUTE WORST!
This is the worst calculus book out there.

One reviewer says "This book is for good students."I disagree.Iam a good student at a tough university and I hated this book.Out of 35 students who took my calc class only 2 got an A.I was one of the two.So you can take my word because I worked my ass off to get that A.THIS IS THE WORST BOOK ON THE MARKET.Why?

1.Not enough examples
2.The examples are either super easy or super hard
3.Poorly explained concepts
4.Questions on things hardly explained
5.Tons of ambiguous questions
6.Poorly designed text

I could go on and on... Just skip this book.Please.It will make me feel better. ... Read more

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Publisher: The Sunday School Times CompanyPublication date: 1908Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This book an EXACT reproduction of the original book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR?d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Hardcover, 613 pages. ... Read more