Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions: Early Transcendental Functions

One of the arthurs' is a professor at my school (Minton) and it is not a bad book. It is huge, but helpful. Sometimes have to recheck my algebra when doing the samples, but it is a good book.Does give side notes to explain how they got an answer.

Got this book for my son who ended up transferring universities and they used different calc books. This was delivered efficiently and he will be able to use it for 2 classes, not just one. Shipped in a timely fashion. Very satisfied also with the condition on book. Great shape.

This is the worst math textbook I have ever encountered. For example, my husband is a very smart man, and he has taken calculus once in high school and once in college. Since it had been a few years since his last calculus class, he tried to look through this book to refresh his memory before helping me with my calculus class; this book wasn't even detailed enough for him to do that! He agrees with me that this is the worst math textbook we've seen yet.As for learning on my own, the book is worse than useless. I'm taking an online calculus class, and if it weren't for Khan Academy, I would have failed. The book frequently leaves out important steps, and doesn't fully explain things. The wording is very confusing. I don't know how this gets used for any college class; I can't imagine any math teacher looking through this and thinking it was a good pick.

This e-textbook is great. It is an exact copy of the big old paper copy, except it doesn't have to be lugged around! I can simply open my Kindle application on my computer and do all my math homework from there. I am able to bookmark pages with problems, as well as the answers in the back for quick feedback. The only downside is that the e-textbooks from amazon are not available to be used on handheld Kindle devices! Besides that, it is excelent, a better choice than the hard-copy version.

First of all, I want to emphasize that I haven’t seen a calculus book that’s as comprehensive and as relatable in terms of drawing relevant examples in the real world as this. In that regard it’s probably one of the best Calculus books out there. That said, I prefer the earlier editions of this book that this one. To me it seems too concatenated or shrunk down. Before they used to go thru in depth explanation and I think that’s what made these authors particularly stand out. They don’t anymore and now it’s just more of a dry math book focused on the calculations than the story behind them.A good example is in a topic about in Differentiation where they talk about antiderivatives, and explain working backwards from knowing the speed of a space shuttle heading to earth to finding its position. In earlier editions they talked more about what the engineers and astronauts had in mind, and the process they went thru to finally decide to scrap the engines and let the shuttle come down as a huge glider and so on. In this edition, they just sort of gloss over and go directly to the math equations. This pattern is apparent in a lot of other examples in the book and I think that it’s the wrong approach to take.All told, it’s still a good Calculus book. Just scraped all the stuff that differentiated it (no pun intended) from other calculus books and made it a great book.

Great explanations and solution walkthroughs... Wish we used this book in high school. This was the required book and I saved about 60% compared to the college book store!!!

This book seems to be absolutely awesome if you are a smart young kid taking your AB and BC in High School. If you have been doing your math homework studiously for your entire life up to that point, then this book helps to take your reasoning up to another level. As many reviewers have already stated, it leaves out many intermediate steps in a solution or even in explaining the reasoning behind something. This keeps an attentive, sharp young mind focused and helps to push their limits. If you read more advanced works, a lot of times authors are talking at level 3, 4, or beyond on the "page," assuming that you are at their level. Therefore, this book is great preparatory material for young high achievers.Unfortunately, this is also a drawback if you are an adult finally taking your Calc 2 and 3 classes. As a smart adult, ideas come easy for you. That's your advantage versus a kid. However, math is like working out. If you are out of shape, and/or your past preparation in High School and College was not the best, then this book will smack you hard. Most adults have many years separating their preparation. You forget some tricks. It can't be helped. It really isn't practical "restarting" your math sequence from Pre-Calc on up when you are 30, 40, etc. Simply having worked out examples in depth will trigger memories and techniques or show how "smart" people would solve the problem. Spending more time explaining the ideas behind what is being done will help an adult or self-learner gain confidence in what they are learning while reacquiring lost skills. If the verbiage becomes too much, then as an adult you have excellent skimming skills, but at least it is there if you need it. This book is enormous! I have calculus books that cover the same material in nearly half the size. So if you are skipping explanations and worked out solutions then why is the book so large? It is paradoxical.I've written enough and there are some more pros/cons I could write, but my main point of view is the dichotomy between kid and adult students. I haven't seen too many reviewers state their perspective along these lines and so I thought it would be helpful!

I used this for my Calc 1 and Calc 2 class.