Title: Disappointment
Product review: This text leaves much to be desired as an application-intensive calculus primer and fails even more miserably as a proof-intensive development of multivariable analysis. My complaints are,1) The writing style is convoluted, boring, at times directionless.2) I had to severely edit the proofs before they were respectable. Many of the proofs suffer from blatant flaws. ertain proofs are not even proofs, but conclude with the statement: "an obvious pattern emerges" as opposed to making the appropriate inductive argument.3) The definitions are unspecific and often involve mere hand-waving.4) The examples are unhelpful and not illustrative.5) This is just personal preference, but I really don't like Folland's topology notation and have frequent problems with the rest of his notation.There are better books out there. Don't waste your time with this one.
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