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Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: zergju on 13/02/2006 09:56:44

Title: Can someone recommend me a calculus book?
Post by: zergju on 13/02/2006 09:56:44: Hey guys, I am new here and I find this forum so much interesting although I cannot understand full of it.
Since I am a senior high school student, I wonder if you could provide me with some of the books you have been using which you think is very good. Any subject! calculus, physics,biology,whatever! And you can also recommend books you heard of being exellent.
cuz I wanna begin my college studies earlier.

I think the feynman's lectures on physics are really good, and I hope you could read it.

THANX!
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Post by: DocN on 13/02/2006 17:03:52: For fun try this website--

http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/

Doc
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Post by: harryneild on 13/02/2006 18:14:29: some books that i have read for college preparation are-

Schrodingers cat by John Gribbin
Schrodinger's Kittens by John Gribbin
Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Breif History Of Time by Stephen Hawkins
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Post by: Soul Surfer on 13/02/2006 20:24:09: An absolutely superb and readable physics related maths book that takes you all the way from simple addition up to string theory and quantum gravity via standard vector and tensor calculus is Roger Penrose's book "The Road to Reality".

it is ISBN 0-224-04447-8

I just cannot reccommend it too highly

Learn, create, test and tell
evolution rules in all things
God says so!
Title: Re: Can someone recommend me a calculus book?
Post by: zergju on 14/02/2006 00:04:14: Well, thanks every one!
I find the calculus website really fun, try it out!
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Post by: bigtim on 19/02/2006 16:24:19: I find the internet the most useful "book". Not much it can't tell you.

Big Tim
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Post by: Monox D. I-Fly on 11/12/2018 07:04:38: The Schaum's Outline series are quite great.
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Post by: set fair on 11/12/2018 14:29:00: I loved calculus at school. I took an Open University course in optimization - a maths backwater when I was your age, which has blossomed since computers became powerful enough to do the calculations. It brings the possibilty of a lucrative carreer doing what you love. So look it out on your libraries web site. Sorry I can't recommend a particular book.
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Post by: yor_on on 18/12/2018 21:45:52: There is a Swedish book that I liked called 'for poets and like minded'. Doubt it is translated though. Pete is pretty good at mathematics I think, and some year(s?) ago he offered to help those interested. Don't know if the offer still stands.
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Post by: Petrochemicals on 19/03/2019 05:31:15: "Calculus Explained" by W.J.Reichmann. for posterity its quite good !
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Post by: PmbPhy on 19/03/2019 18:58:01: Quote from: zergju on 13/02/2006 09:56:44
Hey guys, I am new here and I find this forum so much interesting although I cannot understand full of it.
Since I am a senior high school student, I wonder if you could provide me with some of the books you have been using which you think is very good. <b>Any subject! </b>calculus, physics,biology,whatever! And you can also recommend books you heard of being exellent.
cuz I wanna begin my college studies earlier.

I think the <b>feynman's lectures on physics</b> are really good, and I hope you could read it.

THANX!
Calculus - Contexts and Contexts by James Stewart

div, grad, curl and all that - an informal text on vector calculus by H.M. Schey

Introducing Special Relativity by W.S.C. Williams.