Review: Calculus in Five Hours: Concepts Revealed so You Don't Have to Sit Through a Semester of Lectures

Calculus in Five Hours: Concepts Revealed so You Don't Have to Sit Through a Semester of Lectures by Dennis Jarecke
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

...Speak to a graph’s domain without ever using or covering end-line behavior? Extrema with no discussion of local versus global? Certainly, anyone from the point of view of “a Semester of Lectures” will be able to spot one or more things “missing” in a rapid introduction doable by lunch....

I would not recommend this as replacement for a semester, but I would recommend it for, say, someone needing to take calculus many years after their last experience. Or, someone interested but not ready to commit to a course. There could be value to follow through while one does “Sit Through a Semester of Lectures”. Exercise solutions appear on a companion site.

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