![]() ![]() Then I found Marsden and Weinstein's Calculus 1-3. The exercises are so simple you won't be challenged at all and thus not memorize and benefit much in the end. I tried Thomas' Calculus, a newer edition, which I do not recommend at all. Thus I decided to look for something else, that would be less time consuming. (I might have to mention at this point that I'm studying Engineering not Mathematics and that a student in mathematics might not have such difficulties with this text.) I will come back to spivak sometime, but at the moment i simply can't afford to spend the time spivak takes. I could only solve every 10th problem in chapter one. It was not very practical for selfstudy since the exercises are pretty tough. I'm currently using the textbook from my calculus sequence, but I'm interested to know what books other people used to learn calculus and if the book is potentially worth checking out. Calculus is one of the mathematics knowledge areas that a software engineer should be competent in, so I'm looking for not only solidifying the courses that I've already taken, but moving forward with slightly more advanced topics, at an undergraduate mathematics level. I'm particularly interested in studying for my IEEE Certified Software Development Associate exam - 10% of the exam is mathematics (calculus, differential equations, and statistics). My mathematical strengths lie in the discrete mathematics. I learned a little bit of vector math in physics as well, but I'm not strong in it. So far, my calculus background is limited to single-variable calculus, which I applied in my physics sequence and engineering statistics. ![]() I've already taken my calculus sequence and I'm interested in brushing up and staying sharp on the basics.
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