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Title: Not the best text for learning Multivar for the first time
Review: I'm a freshman in college taking multivariate, and I dropped my course because of this book. The writing style is not unified and incoherent at best, and so the proofs and discussions of theory meander quite a bit. If this is your first exposure to vector calculus, as it was mine, this can be quite discouraging.The problems are very difficult, and often involve proving theorems that are only tangentially related to the topics being studied. While this book does go much further in depth than a standard multivariate calculus textbook, the cost is a deeper working understanding of the material. This book is really only worth it if you already know multivar or vector calculus and are seeking harder problems. The examples and lessons are simply insufficient.My new course uses Thomas' Calculus, which is a textbook lightyears ahead of this one in overall quality of instruction. Stay away from this book.
