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Title: Overrated.
Review: An uneven combination of sometimes unclearly written text, often intuitively unhelpful development (which might have been accomplished with considerably more brevity), and 'friendly' writing style. There are better presentations of the subject; here is a short list:(1) A good beginner-oriented approach may be found in Adams/Hass/Thompson "How to Ace the Rest of Calculus".(2) Howard A. Anton's "Calculus, 7th edition" contains fine introductory sections on the subject.(3) "Vector Analysis" by Stroud and Booth is an excellent self-study text and is written in a 'programmed learning' format.(4) An elegantly written short introduction may be found in the first chapter of Francis J. Flanigan's "Complex Analysis".(5) For a rigorous and very thorough development, Albert Shadowitz's "The Electromagnetic Field" is superb.
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