4 Giant Calculus Books That Roamed The Earth

There are lots of really good calculus books out there. In this video, I will show you 4 giant calculus books that are not as widely used today as many other books. I purposely picked these 4 math books because you might not have seen these before. Many of these are out of print but I did find a few copies and I've linked them below in case you want to check them out. Note all of these books cover the material that is usually covered in Calculus 1, Calculus 2, and Calculus 3. This means if you are taking one of these classes these books would work great to complement what you are learning in class. These books are also excellent for self-study. I hope you enjoyed the video.

Calculus by Ellis and Gulick

Calculus by Stein

Calculus by Swokowski

Calculus by Leithold

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[guidichris]

Love your channel!!! As I am retired now and well beyond going back to school (BSEE Virginia Tech 82), I study math for the challenge. It's worth noting that many books that run hundreds for current editions are very affordable as previous editions. Actually used (and still have) Swokowski 1978-1980.

[VisionScientist]

I appreciate the coverage of Lighthold's calculus book. I enjoyed watching Stand and Deliver.

[baekBlackbeen]

In Korea, it's either Thomas or Stewart. Spivak and Apostol are sometimes mentioned by math major to practice calculus for the 2nd time. Nobody mentions about Larsen Calculus. Also, In Korea we teach calculus for 2 semesters. We skip most of the Calc 1 content and jump to Calc to straightforward. (Except inverse trigonometry and hyperbolic functions and polar coordinates)

[shanermahmud]

Looking at these books brings me joy... and a lot of nostalgia from when I had to go through these courses! Love it!

[AB-qrjb]

Here in Ethiopia this book (famously called Ellis) was (may be still, is) standard calculus textbook. I was amazed when I realize it wasn't so elsewhere.

[leler]

I never knew these Calculus book exist. Thank you Math Sorcerer for sharing these amazing books! More books to add to my collection.

[gabrielaguilera]

I have the 7th edition of Leithold's book (in Spanish) and the third edition of Stein's book (in Spanish). I love both books because when I was a mathematics pedagogy student, I found in both books very good examples of the use of delta-epsilon, which books like Larson or Stewart do not have.

[larrykehl]

I used Swokowski (3rd edition - one with a nautilus on the cover) for Calc 1, 2, and 3 back in '77' to '78 (graduated in '79 - Northern Mich Univ). IMHO a very good book, I still have all my texts from under grad program (math major), grad program @ Wright State Univ (math), and finally AFIT (Ops Research - Masters) .

[martinhawrylkiewicz]

Calculus with Analytic Geometry by Howard Anton (3rd edition) was the book I used in HS and college years ago.

[juyifan]

The Leithold book is still heavily used in Brazil, it is nearly as popular as the Stewart book. The Brazilian edition has an additional chapter (made by brazilian authors) on differential equations because they wanted to "complete the curriculum". It is divided into 2 volumes, because it would be too big as a single tome.

[satyavivekanandbattula]

Thanks for sharing about those books Sir .

[stevenreynolds]

Ironically as I was watching this I was wondering who started the trend of how Calculus books should be structured. Then when you got to Leithold you answered this question before the video was over. I learned from Thomas 3rd edition in the early 1970's, and have a modern copy of Stewart, just to exercise this old brain.

[scottmandel]

I used the Ellis and Gulick book in 1979. Glad to see it get a good rating!

[Wandering_Horse]

I just picked up 2 Calculus books...
'Calculus' 7th Edition by Larson-Hostetler-Edwards, circa 2002.
'Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus' by Percey Smith, Willaim Longley, and Willaim Granville, circa 1941.
Picked up both books for $1 each at a local used bookstore.

[DavidMartinez-qeqm]

I have one of the early editions of Leithold's book in Spanish (I don't remember if the second or the first). I remember the day I bought it, I was a 17 yo high school student in Mexico and I was walking around downtown in my city in an area with a lot of second-hand book shops. I went into one of them and stumbled upon this huge green book with yellow pages, this was Leithold's.
I remember thinking this was nothing like the basic calc books we used for high school math. To this day, I even remember the prodigious smell of that book. I got it for something like 1 US dollar at the time, along with a book by Rudyard Kipling in English and a Merrian-Webster dictionary to go with it. These were all super old, I think from late 60's early 70's.
I still remember those afternoons I spent solving problems from my Leithold's calc and reading the Kipling book with my dictionary faithfully by my side. 🙂
This book was also what ultimately inspired me to get into a degree in Physics one year later. Looking through my Relativity and other Physics texts, I realize how much I owe to Leithold's book. These videos are gold for those of us who have a special connection with books.

[JesseMaurais]

Agree about color in the books. All my intro books were very colorful and had lots of pictures. But many were pictures of students having a good time at college. Not really helpful. I knew that my education had got serious when I was assigned a text in just black and white (Wackerly's statistics). Color does help for certain diagrams but its as if, once they go with the expense of color, they go too far and make it distract from the content.

Though many students at my university used Stewart's, I ended up with Adams & Essex. Its the one with a desert on the cover. Adams was also into typography and it shows on every page. I think they only used 3 colors through the entire book.

[jlas]

In my country, a three volume (800+ pages each) behemoth called "Analisis matematico" by notable mathematicians Rey Pastor, Pi Calleja and Trejo was revered when I was a student, very many years ago. It was more of a reference book than a student´s everyday companion. Originally appearing around 1950, it was revised and updated regularly. Most spanish speaking math major students probably know it

[randomlife]

Mere mention of that Leithold book gives me calculus PTSD.

[cyanidepress]

Man, that Leithold book is crazy expensive. I used Calculus by Purcell and Varberg back at Purdue. And I am sure you're single-handedly driving the used math textbook market - I think I am up to ~80 books now due to your reviews.

[seemo]

I am now a doctor of biostatistics, and I studied calculus over 20 years ago. We used to study using a book by Salas. I am not sure if it is still around. I remember it as good and relatively easy to understand.