Calculus by Stewart Math Book Review (Stewart Calculus 8th edition)

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[davidmacfarlane]

RIP James Stewart. He died December 3rd, 2014 of Multiple Myeloma at the age of 73. His profound influence on mathematics, and especially calculus will be greatly missed.

[pinklady]

I have that book for myself. It is a wonderful book. In between pages, I have inserted loose sheets (8" x 6") as *BOOKMARKS.* On those sheets (preferably wafer-thin paper), I have scribbled notes, examples of questions & answers, definitions of notations, and titles of tutorials in Youtube.
When I go to open the book and read chapters, I have my handy bookmarks of explanatory notes there.

[UsamaThakurr]

Please do more of these we need someone like you to guide trust me i was lost but your channel really helped me with the confusions i had thank you!

[JLKeener]

I’ve found the Stewart book to be extremely readable for my self-study purposes. I like the layout of the book and the graphics. I found a relatively inexpensive copy at a used bookstore.

[gmcenroe]

The only thing I like about these newer Calculus books is the use of multicolor graphics. When I took Calculus in the late 70s we used Thomas' 4th Edition which was that large yellow book with the curve on the front. We completed Calc 1 and Calc 2 using this book which included 1 hour lecture every day with problem sets each day. This book may have not been a "pretty" as the newer books with pictures, but I didn't really care. I just wanted to learn the math, which you did by doing problems. I never took notes in class. I followed that up with a semester of linear algebra and another semester of Differential equations using Boyce/DePrima 's book Differential Equations and boundary value problems. That was a kind of difficult read and we didn't cover the entire book as it got into kind of esoteric subjects such as finding characteristics of solutions of unsolvable D.Es. I never had a Vector Calculus class. We kind of had to learn it on our own when we got to the 3rd of 5 quarters of Physics for Chemistry majors covering Electricity and Magnetism. More math was involved in 2 quarters of Physical Chemistry for seniors in Chemistry major that covered basic quantum mechanics and Statistical Mechanics. I still like and own the early Thomas 4th edition Calculus book, only other book that interests me is Spivak's Calculus book.

[spandansaha]

I like the free textbook of calculus by Gilbert strang
Everyone should give it a try
It's the best calc book I have seen so far

[anumgill]

I have read this book now these days, it's really amazing book 9 edition... And gives a complete guidelines about Caluslus.

[gertwallen]

Calculus by Apostol and Spivak if you wish to go the extra mile with deep understanding. Stewart's Calculus is good to warm up with practice problems.

[robertovolpi]

It's amazing!

I have the "Essential Calculus, Early Transcendentals" by James Stewart and its first page is exactly as damaged as yours!

[joshual]

Lol I can relate to when you said I look at math books on Saturday night haha 😂. But really good review ! I agree with the review exercise and true or false problem solving questions are really great ! I just got this book last week and I’m already ranking it as one of my favorites

[ILikeFeelingElectric]

Is no one gonna talk about the picture of Shrek for Chapter 16 XD

[AndrewKln]

A lot of people hate this book. Mostly because of a ridiculous price and for having new editions every year. And for having too much similar exercises.
There was also comments about wrong definitions.

[ElmerEscoto]

I had not seen this book (I'm not in the U.S.) I took my Calculus courses using Dennis G. Zill's "Calculus and Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry", and another textbook (which I lost) from Earl Swokowski. My copy of Stewart's book is on the way to me. THanks for the heads-up!

[nikolakolarov]

What is the difference between Calculus and Calculus: early transcendentals?

[vasuhardeo]

I really love the ron larson 6th an thomas 11th, but I have used this book an I got to agree with you its a complete text one can really teach themself from.😊

[alexkid]

Is there a difference between the early transcendentals and the "regular" one?

[billykingofgames]

I mean given that James Stewert is a canadian mathematician and taught at UofT and McMaster for a long time, yes his book is popular in canada

[carloss]

What book should I get. I'm planning to major in computer science. Should I get Calculus 8th edition By James stewart or Calculus Early transcendentals 8th edition?

[xdxd-brjv]

What books should I use to teach myself calculus?

[Dockeysnakee]

We used this book at Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden too!