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Title: Way too theoretical
Review: I used this book for undergraduate Calculus I and II. I had never taken calculus before and if it weren't for my wonderful professor, I would have hated and failed calculus. This book was definately not geared toward beginning calculus students-its way too theoretical. Instead of working out examples, they spend most of their time proving theorums. When you're just trying to understand the basics of calculus, how to differentiate, integrate and determine whether or not a series converges, you don't care about the proof, you really don't! I think this book would be better for an advanced calculus course where the students already understand the basics and want more theory. This book was just way to abstract for me. It didn't help to understand the material so if you don't have a good professor and you've never taken calculus, this book is not going to be your cup of tea.
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