Calculus Volume 1

by Gilbert Strang

Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning. The book guides students through the core concepts of calculus and helps them understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. Due to the comprehensive nature of the material, we are offering the book in three volumes for flexibility and efficiency. Volume 1 covers functions, limits, derivatives, and integration.
Please note that this title is published under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, which means that you are free to use and adapt, but not for commercial purposes. Changes you make need to be shared using this license.

Genres: Mathematics, Textbooks, Nonfiction, Reference, Education

873 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 30, 2017

About the author

William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934), usually known as simply Gilbert Strang or Gil Strang, is an American mathematician, with contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education, including publishing seven mathematics textbooks and one monograph. Strang is the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He teaches Introduction to Linear Algebra and Computational Science and Engineering and his lectures are freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare.

Reviews

[Austin Kinghorn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good calculus textbook. Very clear and did very well in not skipping steps, while keeping a good pace to it. The problems were helpful, and the illustrations were to the point.

[Luyi · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's hard to have the same patience and passion to read the topic.

[Amelia Bruns · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's not this books fault I don't like math. This book actually made it easier to like math.

[Khalid E. · Rating 1.75 out of 5]

Most of the time, I just end up submitting the assigned pages to an LLM and asking it to explain better. It saves me endless amounts of time (it's personalised, no fluff, and offers practical examples, so I'm able to understand much faster) and is the main reason I'm able to cram courses like this in 3-5 days. I only really read the book to form an initial, base understanding, before diving deeper with the LLM.

We really are fortunate to have these tools; I can imagine the struggle of trying to master university calculus with no internet – I certainly wouldn't be able to squeeze 3 months of content into such a narrow time frame. I find most university textbooks pretty bad in general, though. A 2 means it was OK.