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Title: Rudimentary examples at best
Review: My university switched calculus books from Stewart to the Hughes-Hallett while I was transitioning from Single Variable Calculus to Multivariable Calculus and the differences to me were stark. The examples in many of the sections are rudimentary at best. When the first problem is significantly different from any example in the section it is difficult to progress. Stewart was much better at teaching in the exercises by taking one step at a time. Hughes-Hallett forces the student to leap on the first problem.
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