Ryan M. Calculus Essentials for Dummies

Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2010. — 192 p. — ISBN 0470642696, 9780470642696.Calculus Essentials For Dummies is intended for three groups of readers: students taking their first calculus course, students who need to brush up on their calculus to prepare for other studies, and adults of all ages who’d like a good introduction to the subject. For those who’d like a fuller treatment of the subject, check out Calculus For Dummies.If you’re enrolled in a calculus course and you find your textbook less than crystal clear, Calculus Essentials For Dummies is the book for you. It covers the two most important topics in the first year of calculus: differentiation and integration.If you’ve had elementary calculus, but it’s been a couple of years and you want to review the concepts to prepare for, say, some graduate program, Calculus Essentials For Dummies will give you a quick, no-nonsense refresher course.Nonstudent readers will find the book’s exposition clear and accessible. Calculus Essentials For Dummies takes calculus out of the ivory tower and brings it down to earth.This is a user-friendly math book. Whenever possible, I explain the calculus concepts by showing you connections between the calculus ideas and easier ideas from algebra and geometry. I then show you how the calculus concepts work in concrete examples. Only later do I give you the fancy calculus formulas. All explanations are in plain English, not math-speak.