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    Calculus for the AmbitiousThomas William Körner

    Calculus for the Ambitious

    Thomas William Körner · 2014

    Mathematics
    Open LibraryAmazon
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    1recommend
    2mentions
    2people
    2016–2020years
    50% recommend50% neutral

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    20162017201820192020

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    1. apricotOct 2016
      Lang's "Short Calculus" (a reprint of the 1st edition of his calculus textbook) is a welcome change from those 2234th edition doorstop textbooks that make calculus into a boring parade of examples, where the goal of the game seems to be becoming an ace at pattern-matching.

      More recent, more idiosyncratic but quite nice is T.W. Körner's Calculus for the Ambitious. I could see a motivated high-schooler learn calculus from this.

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    2. nbernardJul 2020
      The Pleasures of Counting by T. W. Körner. If you want something more oriented towards analysis, I see he also authored a Calculus for the Ambitious but I have no experience with it.
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