7th Edition, Calculus

this book and the math department at OU in general is over rated. they do not explain things very well, and they treat it as though they are the only school that has a math department. this coming from someone who is good at math and doing well.

I ordered this book "new." The condition states otherwise. It looks like a person took a poop on it. Not to mention, I have to buy a web assign code since the book didn't come with one - something I'd expect a new book to come with. I am very displeased here

The book arrived on time and everything, but when I opened it I noticed that the spine of the book wasn't attached to the pages at all. This is two out of three books that I have ordered off of the store that arrived damaged. Inside the package they had one little piece of that bubble plastic protecting it. I am sorry but if I am paying for a 170$ book i expect better.

Fancy Example Problems That Will Just Confuse You More and Make you Spend 4 times the necessary to Understand a Simple Concept is what they should rename this book. Be prepared to spend a half hour per fancy example that references other fancy example problems in the book to try and learn a concept that has been covered with fancy examples to the point of making it incomprehensible. I don't want every example problem to also force me to prove some unique irrelevant proof from another chapter to understand it. Stewart is a show-off and everyone I have talked to agrees. It would be one thing if that show off nature actually helped you learn math. All it does here is obfuscate concepts. If he wanted to do one per section I would be cool with that but literally 3/4ths of the example problems in the book are nothing but fancy examples that reference other fancy examples in the text. I don't need a wild trig substitution to thrown in to explain implicit differentiation or something. I mean the book really is that ridiculous. The answers in the back of the book are obviously not explanations on how to do the homework problems - but that I could live with if the examples actually showed you how to do math. Stewart is making too much money off this kind of low quality teaching guide. God help you if your professor has this book in your calc 2 class.

As an engineering student, this book was the chosen text for all four of my calc classes. This book is weak in almost every way: it's explanations are terse or nonexistent, it goes through examples as if you already know the concepts perfectly, and it rarely actually illustrates the points in question. Many of the more difficult chapters are actually the least explained, as is especially true with the chapter on series. The author often uses mathematical tricks and techniques to rework a problem into a simpler form that is easier to solve, which would be great, but he almost never shows what method was used to simplify a problem thus nullifying any chance of understanding the work from thereon. The actual practice problems are far more difficult than any of the examples in the chapters, so without someone to explain them to you, you will be at an impasse almost any time you try to solve something.

If you have good professors, this book is workable and you will get by. If you have awful professors and are forced to rely on this book to teach you, you will struggle greatly. MIT opencourse is the only way i got by most of the time. This text essentially became a $250 dollar paper weight for me. Good luck to anyone using this. If you have the option of this or another text, take the other.

This textbook was assigned when I took calculus as a freshman in college. Back then, in those ancient days of 2007, we used the fifth edition. I've seen the sixth and seventh editions, and, as far as I can tell, there is no real difference. Some of the problems have been reordered, and maybe a sentence tweaked here or there, some new pictures, but nothing really noteworthy. Seemingly the only reason to release a new edition is to stay abreast of the used book market.

If you are a professor, it is incredibly inconsiderate to assign this book. It's not a bad book, really, but there are a ton of cheap and even free alternatives that are, at the very least, just as good. If any instructors are reading this, you should really take the time to find one of these alternatives that you like and assign it, rather than forcing 200 teenagers to spend $150.00 on a textbook that's basically a dime a dozen (you might even try an older edition of Stewart. There are currently 668 used copies of the fifth edition available on the store, the cheapest being $1.08. That these things become worthless once a new edition comes out speaks volumes.). Also, the solutions manuals to these books hit the internet approximately three seconds after they are published, and with websites like Cramster around, assigning this thing is asking your less honest pupils to cheat.

I consider myself to be a person of average aptitude, but with a very strong and patient work ethic. For the last two weeks I have been self-studying from this book in order to test out of Calc I. I am only two chapters in at this point, but my frustration with this book is increasing with every section.

The two most frustrating aspects of this textbook for me are: 1) the introductory example problems for each section make a habit of skipping steps and 2) these example problems typically only cover 80% of the material in the exercise sections. I'm usually able to figure out the remaining 20%, but the skipping multiple steps in the exercise problems strikes me as extremely sloppy and makes self-study with this book as your only source truly impossible for somebody like me.

I assume that these shortcomings stem from the fact that the author is attempting to cover too much territory (four semesters) for one book. Perhaps the universities and high schools want one book because it's cheaper. This then leaves the onus on the poor teacher to identify and fill in these gaps.

In the end, I give the book two stars because it IS technically a calculus book and the exercise sections were useful.

This book covers the first twelve chapters of the full edition of Calculus by Stewart. I would actually recommend buying that book instead of this one if you are planning on taking up to Calc. 3 because they are similar in price but the full version includes Calc 1, 2, and 3 material.

Anyway, I used this text for both Calculus 1 and 2 in college. The first six chapters cover the course material for Calculus 1: Introductory Analytical Geometry, Limits, Derivatives, Applications of Derivatives, Integrals, and Applications of Intergrals. Chapters 7-12 covers course material normal for Calculus 2: Inverse functions/Derivatives and integrals of exponential and logarithmic functions, Techniques of Integrations, Applications of Integration to Physics/Engineering, Differiential Equations (which we didn't cover), Parametric Equations/Polar Coordinates, and Series. For some reason chapter seven includes different verisons of certain sections but they are basically the same anyway.

Unlike other reviewers, I think that this book was very helpful. It is possible to learn the material if you put a lot of effort into it, which you need to do if you really want to learn Calculus.

I can see why reviewers would find this book difficult to use though. Truthfully, I found the Calc 1 material much more difficult than the Calc 2 material, probably because more of the calc 1 material is based on theory. The section about graphing fuctions using derivatives is especially difficult. It is extremely difficult to take the derivatives of some of the functions the book gives you, let alone find the critical points, etc. Also, some of the maximinization problems are virtually impossible to solve and a number of the related rate problems are very tricky. Finally, I think that I can truthfully say that I rarely solved integrals correctly by the long way (using summations).

Some people think that Calc 2 is the hardest math subject in the world, but I found the calc 2 material much easier than the calc 1 material. The calc 2 chapters deal more with just solving problems particularly limits, integrals, and series, and the "proofs" for equations are just given on the side or in the appendex. You should already know the basics, so there is nothing really tricky here (except maybe integration by partial fractions) and if you put the effort into working problems, you will probably do ok. Calc 2 is all about 1) Learning how to solve problems by recognizing trends and 2) Commiting some formulas and equalities to memory in order to solve problems and learn about applications of math. As far as I can see, Stewart's problems are as good as any to learn Calc 2.

If you plan on studying Calculus in college, I would suggest first buying the book "Calculus the Easy Way" to look over first. It is pretty good; it covers all Calc 1 material and a good chunk of Calc 2 material. I would also suggest buying the solutions manuel to Stewart's text because it is helpful to see how the problems are worked out. My advice is to just put a lot of time into Calculus (no matter what book you use) and you should do ok. Its just math.

This is definitely NOT the book for Multivariable Calculus. Many times, this books just covers 1 or 2 basic examples, yet the problems are more advanced than the examples and explanations they give. I had to constantly look up online for better explanations of concepts. I'm not saying that the book has to spell out everything, but if the book only covers basic problems and then challenges the reader to problems that were never covered in the chapter, then this book didn't do its job in teaching the concepts well.

Good book but earlier versions is better cause they r shredding it into pieces. That depends on the students understanding of the material in it. Plus it's better than thomas calculus book that i have studied in cal 1.

Stewart's calculus textbook is a relatively standard development of basic calculus. It is readable with many examples and pictures to aid understanding. It is not a "rigorous" development in the strict (i.e. real analysis) sense - you'll need a supplementary textbook if you want to crack that egg. It does, however, provide students with the ability to solve problems using calculus that they will likely encounter in later courses.

It is not without drawbacks, however. My primary complaint is that while I worked through the later chapters for the first time I was unsure why I was doing what I was. In particular, the chapters on vectors were rather poorly done - they seemed developed enough just to get students through the problem sets. On the other hand, anybody wishing to seriously learn vector calculus will likely have an entire book devoted to the topic.

My only other complaint is the development of differential equations. I understand the purpose of including them in the textbook (they're used in many fields), but you really can't cover much about differential equations in the small chapters devoted to them. Like I said, I understand why the author included the sections, but after learning differential equations properly, I do not feel like those chapters in this textbook served any useful purpose.

Due to the widespread usage of this textbook, it is inevitable that some struggling students (and mathematicians!) will dislike it. If you happen to be a struggling student, check out "Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach" by Morris Kline. It is very cheap, thorough, and will undoubtedly make for an excellent study aid.

Typical book for getting money from the people for nothing. Half of the problems are useless and ridiculous. I student have to take calculus 1 and doesn't take calculus 2 and 3, more then 800 pages of the is book is useless for him/her, but student have to pay insane price and take idiotic brick book to the university, at least once per week. Never buy this book. If its mandatory, take Calculus with another instructor. Its a robbery, a legal robbery of the last cent of the undergraduate students.

I wrote many reviews about this author and his bad calculus textbooks. 1st edition, 2nd edition, 3rd edition...so what? Despite having a CD-ROM, the book still is the same which is lack of complete and explicit examples, not user friendly, skips steps in the problems presented as examples, lack of color, a poorly written student solutions manual and very condenscending in its language to the reader.

This basically is a very bad textbook. There are much better calculus textbooks from other fine authors and publishers

Again take it from a student who is now in a professional school. Yes, I'm a very intelligent student in a competitive health field program and I'm not lying. I will say this as a student to all math teachers who might have heard this is a good calculus textbook. Don't let those testimonials about "how good this book is" fool you. This is truely not a good calculus book and it frustrates students more then ever. To all math teachers, if you want the student to lose respect for you as a professional math teacher or professor, then go ahead and buy this book for the students to learn from. If you want your students to respect you as a good math teacher or professor, I suggest you stay clear away from this book and find other calculus textbooks from other publishers and authors to teach your students from.

There are multiple reviews stating that this book provides poor examples, leaves out steps, and is highly standardized. In a broad sense, This is may be accurate. However, much of this book is designed for undergraduate students perusing degrees in mathematics, physics and engineering. A large portion the students that will use this book in college will go far beyond the curriculum it contains into much higher levels of mathematics. Likewise, the students taking the courses that this book covers are generally expected to have a fairly strong foundation in or at least slightly notable exposure to intermediate and advanced algebra as well as some trigonometry. It is fully necessary to remember that authors of mathematics textbooks, especially in this level of the calculus, cannot include every step to every problem detailed in every possible scenario of which that formula, theorem, etc. may be utilized in practice. This would lead to the text doubling or possibly tripling in size and price. Although quality of explanations varies to some degree as measurable, the content presented in any current edition of textbook covering the same array of material will contain many parallels with its competitors. Consequently, the true level of quality of this publication is largely a matter of preference and is based on each students individual learning mechanics. Obviously a student who is going to be taking a course that lists this title as the required text has little to no other options in getting a book that best suits their own learning style and skill level (considering this one does not) but a reader adopting a more recreational approach in attempting to read this book and evaluate its contents should, at the very least make sure to have the appropriate prerequisites. If you are a reader that is just interested in brushing up on this subject in your free time or practicing mathematics in a more leisurely manner, there are many other publications available that will provide for a much less dense and considerably more attractive read. Dover Publications prints several worthwhile books over this subject. Anyone interested in seeing those titles may search "Dover Books on Mathematics" at the top. Im fairly certain that the store lists most of them.

If your course requires you to get this book, get it of course. But if you want to learn Calculus from the best Math textbook ever written, get Spivak (Calculus, 4th edition). Also, if you stumble across a copy of Apostol, that's pretty good too (Calculus, Vol. 1: One-Variable Calculus, with an Introduction to Linear Algebra). But Spivak is the best - relevant, well written, engaging, comprehensive.

While reading several reviews about Stewart's Calculus 7th edition, I noticed that several reviews were dated pre-2011. This particular edition is stated as, " Publisher: Brooks Cole; 7 edition (January 1, 2011)". How can people reading these review give credence to reviews that were written before a book is even published??? Obviously, some of the reviews were written about earlier editions. Caveat Emptor!

What do I think about this 7th edition? My school has been using Larson's 8th edition until last year when we switched to Larson's 9th edition. I also own a copy of Stewart's 5th edition. Recently, I was allowed to preview Stewart's 7th edition. I saw great improvement of the 7th edition over the 5th edition. In fact, I think Stewart's 7th edition is now closer to being like Larson's.

Over all, I think calculus students will do well with either Stewart's or Larson's recent editions. Keep checking the store.com for a bargain.

This is one of the most user-unfriendly textbooks I have encountered. Stewart often presents complex concepts very quickly, with only the simplest of worked examples. This often makes the end-of-section problems bewildering, as the reader has not seen how to approach a given type of problem. Of course, there's nothing wrong with a textbook presenting some problems that require "outside the box" thinking and extension of chapter material, but I think it's a sign of shoddy writing when one's given such little guidance on how to do even simple problems. The book is serviceable for Calc I and very early Calc II (chapters 1-7), since Calc I material isn't nearly as difficult as Calc II. But the later chapters really suffer from Stewart's spartan presentation. Especially badly done are the sections on centers of mass, polar coordinates (especially the area between two polar curves), Taylor's Inequality, and the multiplication/division of power series. I was lucky to have a good professor who cleared up much of the material in lecture, but autodidacts are out of luck. I give this book two stars only because it's written in complete, grammatical sentences, and it does not contain glaring errors.

I notice that the text procedural for a problem went on for multiply pages, that is where I used other text such as Thomas Calculus by Joel Haus and Modern Mathematics with Application to Business and Social Sciences 4th Ed. Wheeler and Peeples to get through Calculus 1, 2, and 3. I recommending cross referencing concepts through other text to complement Calculus by Stewart. More work but worth the A.

I've used this book for two semesters of calculus, and it is easily the worst textbook I've ever encountered. Stewart completely skips many of the steps in his example problems, making them nearly impossible to learn from, often skipping so much algebra that even the best students in the class have no idea what he did. His explanations are dry and wordy, rarely presenting the material in a clear, accessible manner. The example problems rarely match up in difficulty or technique with the problem sets, making it so the student is completely incapable of doing the problem sets. Math absolutely requires hard work and practice, but there's a problem when the book does so little to teach that the student isn't even capable of attempting the practice problems. I often found myself understanding the topic less after using the book as a supplement to my lectures, as the material is presented so poorly that it makes the concepts more confusing.

I think this book is pretty fantastic if you take the time to read it, follow and work the examples, and use the free homework hints on the website. The problem sets relate directly to the material in the sections that proceed the sets, and the thought provoking extensions in some of the problems are reasonable and truly teach you something deeper about the material even when you can't come up with the correct answer without help. I've found a typo in the problem sets here and there but every text has that. Nice book.

This book is actually made as a setup. To completely understand it and do the problems, you NEEd the solutions manual and study guide as well. And the examples given are extremely poorly explained. Buy the older edition if you actually want to learn the material. This is complete BS, as they want students to spend over $500 on buying all the books to learn calculus.

The explanations in this textbook are very ambiguous, and the example problems hardly give you an idea of how to solve the exercise problems. In fact, many of the example problems are completely unrelated to what's in the exercise section. This book always tells you to refer to previous sections to review some concept, so you will spend a great deal of time flipping back and forth trying to figure things out. The problems are challenging, but granted it IS Calculus. I just think students would have a much easier time with the homework if the book wasn't so damn confusing.

I only use Stewart's textbook to view the problems needed to be done of the homework. I highly recommend getting Larson's, Anton's, Schaum's, or even Calculus for Dummies to learn calculus. Stewart will just make an already complex subject even more confusing.

The first thing to know about Stewart's Calculus is that it's huge - big enough to kill someone without a problem. I've had the displeasure of teaching from this book before. There is clearly a Platonic idea of some standardized test that this book is aimed towards, but make no mistake. Few good things come from this book.

The first thing to know about Stewart's Calculus is that it's huge - big enough to kill someone without a problem. I've had the displeasure of teaching from this book before. There is clearly a Platonic idea of some standardized test that this book is aimed towards, but make no mistake. Few good things come from this book.

Awesome! It's in great condition and exactly what I needed. For awhile I thought I had ordered the wrong book but it was the right one! (Early transcendentals, blue cover, not red) Good price too! Very happy (:

It is true that, for self-study, there are better books out there. Calculus by Ron Larson comes to mind. However, for you students out there, you need to realize that this book is not used for self-study, it's used as a supplement to your calculus lecture. So you cannot say that this book "sucks" because the examples don't reflect the difficulty of the exercises, the explanations are too short, and other various reasons. The purpose of going to university is, for one, to develop your critical thinking skills. Did you know that there are over 500,000 web pages on the Internet featuring calculus tutorials and material related to calculus? Also, there's a library at your school.
This book is great for those who developed the necessary critical thinking capability to sit down, think about a problem, and develop original conclusions. It may seem great for a book to spoon-feed you and walk your hand through the park, but at some point you have to let that go and think about the material (in this case, calculus) on your own and develop some mathematical muscle. You do realize calculus is used in almost every science today right? It's used in the maintenance of the GPS (surely you know what that is), and the construction of nuclear weapons. In short, calculus is all around you. This stuff is important.
There's also another reason why professors like using this book over and over again. They know that there are other calculus books out there with more detailed explanations, better examples, and more user-friendly exercises, but they choose to keep Stewart's book. Why? Because professors know that if they use this book, students will be forced to rely on the professor more. And professors want students to rely on them, because deep down, professors want people to pay attention to them. There's a reason why professors continue to choose to be lecturers year after year. An example is the man whose wife doesn't give him much attention. Also, the man has no power in the relationship. Wanting attention and a sense of power, he decides to continue lecturing at a university, so for an hour or two, people are paying attention to him, fixated on his every word (although sometimes students are on Facebook in class).

Conclusion: Stewart's Calculus is a terrific book and more suited to those who are willing to sit down and think about a problem instead of having everything spoon-fed to them.