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Title: No no no no no!
Review: This is the book I used for my introductory sequence in calculus, and, unfortunately I also used the multivariable version for my vector calculus course. I cannot say enough bad things about this book! I can't believe that I have to give it even 1 star! I am a physics major, and although that may color my opinion, this book in no way prepares one for higher level mathematics. I found myself forced to review the concepts that I was supposed to have learned, such as Fourier series, and so forth. The only way that I was able to do calculus-based physics was by learning the applied mathematics from the physics text itself! Fortunately, I had a great professor for my single and multiple variable course (he hated the book, too!), and I was able to ace them, but it would have been easier without this book. Avoid it like the plague.
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