The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Calculus, 2nd Edition
- ISBN13: 9781592574711
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Cast off the curse of calculus!
Students no longer have anything to fear: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Calculus, Second Edition, is here. Like its predecessor, it was created with an audience of students working toward a non-science related degree in mind. A non-intimidating, easy-to-understand textbook companion, this new edition has more explanatory graphs and illustrations and double the number of practice problems.
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November 26th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
i do not see that it will halp it will make you more dam in calculus because he dose not explaine the move he do or tell you why — which will make you the idiot –i suggest calculus for dummies it s the best
Rating: 1 / 5
November 27th, 2009 at 1:03 am
The thing to do before starting calculus is to be sure you are GREAT at algebra and trig. That is job #1. Job # 2 is to then buy this book, spend a couple hours a night with it, do ALL the problems—you should be through it all in a few weeks. THEN take Calculus and get a great grade.
Better yet, go through the “Humongous” Calculus Book just prior to taking Calculus officially.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 27th, 2009 at 2:11 am
I purchased this book given the title “idiot’s guide” thinking it would simplify the teachers lecture and show step by step how to work out problems. Boy was I wrong! It did help explain a few things, but not enough to really help. I also bought the HUMONGOUS BOOK of CALCULUS. That book claimed to have 100’s of problems worked out. None of them were worked out with step by step instructions. Spend your money elsewhere.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 27th, 2009 at 4:58 am
I won’t tell how many years I have ‘been out of school’, but I finally decided to catch up on my science education. When I started to read magazine articles I found out that I couldn’t. It was as though I was trying to read a foreigh language-I felt (feel) like a dinasaur.
So, back to basics. And I shall relate that without this book I would still be figuring out how to count to 10 on my fingers! Now I actually look forward to my daily learning time.
I am too old for the Olympics, but should I stop coveting a Nobel?
Thanks Mike
Rating: 5 / 5
November 27th, 2009 at 5:18 am
The book is decent at explaining concepts, but so are most math professors. You may find it a little more readable than the math textbook because he throws jokes in there, but really this book contains all the same information that you’ll find in a textbook, but it skips a lot of important conditions and limitations that you should know of. Also, there is barley any information for calculus 2 in this book, mostly just short explanations and a couple examples per topic. Overall, the practice problems and examples are much too simple to be of any real usefulness to a serious college course, and I think your time would be better spent in the professors office or college math help center.
If you’re in college, and struggling with calculus, don’t expect this book to help you. It certainty will make things seem simple but that’s only because they’re showing you simple problems… No serious college prof would ever test on anything as easy as what’s shown in the book. So I’d urge you to save your money and head to the professors office, or find some other means of getting help. (you’re professor really isn’t as scary as you think!)
The only potential use for this book would be for a high school calculus class, but again, don’t expect it to help you on the AP test, or if you’re teacher likes to give complicated problems on tests.
Rating: 2 / 5