10 responses to “The Complete Idiots Guide to Calculus (in Paperback)”

  1. 5.0 out of 5 stars
    Great for the HS Calculus Student!
    This review comes from an ordinary high school student who, because only Calculus AB was available, decided to take the Calculus BC exam without course instruction on additional…

  2. 1.0 out of 5 stars
    Used two pages. Save your money.
    Thank goodness I bought a cheap, used copy, because it’s not worth the full price. I bought this book because I was taking a calculus-based statistical inference class (graduate…

  3. 5.0 out of 5 stars
    Great supplement for your college or high school calc course
    I rarely did any reading in my college calculus I and II courses and used this book as my primary reading and it has helped me done well in each course.

  4. 3.0 out of 5 stars
    Very nice book, despite some errors
    This is a very pleasant book to read, and in general quite well written. The author knows how to balance fun and seriousness, so it doesn’t feel like he’s trying hard to be _too_…

  5. 5.0 out of 5 stars
    Buy this book
    As a lecturer in math at both undergraduate and graduate levels, and specifically calculus, I had always thought that my explanations and teaching were clear and obvious.

  6. 4.0 out of 5 stars
    A good refreshment book.
    To refresh Calculus for a short period time, i.e. 2 or 3 weeks around 10 to 15 hours week, it’s very informative and concise guide.

  7. 4.0 out of 5 stars
    Not too bad
    This is a pretty good book if you have had calc before and would like to do the refresher thing. I don’t think it goes into enough detail at certain times but this may be because…

  8. 4.0 out of 5 stars
    Well, nobody’s “complete”
    I reviewed a college calculus text here on Amazon in which I state that the book would probably be ok if it had any explanation to accompany the author’s examples.

  9. 5.0 out of 5 stars
    Provides an easy overview of the algebra and trigonometry
    Calculus teacher W. Michael Kelley’s Complete Idiot’s Guide To Calculus is no weighty tome for the faint-hearted, but it IS for the faint-hearted convinced that calculus is…

  10. 2.0 out of 5 stars
    made me feel like an idiot
    I read reviews of this book and of C. for Dummies before deciding on this book. Partly because this book has problems (and solutions).

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