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Summary: Calculus education
Comment: Like most solution manuals, the explanations are weak. Nevertheless, it can be helpful when you get stuck on a problem.
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Summary: Great Book
Comment: Just wanted to say, the book is great, got the book within a highly reasonable time period. Wish I could have been able to pay for overnight shipping, but the book came within a week, so all in all not bad at all.
The book has a little bit of damage on the cover, but that is to be expected with a used book, in addition the damage may have been caused by shipping.
Great book, no complaints.
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Summary: student solution manual for calculus, stewart
Comment: This book is an excellent source for my work. I would like to have a solution manual for this book that contain the solutions for the even exercises
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Summary: bettter than nothing
Comment: I have noticed that most people are NOT happy with the solutions presented in this manual, I agree that some of the solutions may be rather short, but it is 10 times better than being left to the solutions in the back of the text. Bottom Line = It's better than nothing.
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Summary: A less than mediocre "shorthand" solutions manual
Comment: This solutions manual has one redeeming factor - for the most part, the solutions are accurate. However, this is where the benefit ends. The methods for solving the problems are severely abbreviated. Problems that may take 8-10 steps to solve are presented in 3-4 steps, with little reason presented. Often, the answers to the odd exercises in the textbook provide equal guidance. Save your money and get another reference (and a different textbook, if at all possible).
Professors and others who have already studied calculus may find the solutions manual to be adequate - of course, they have already been exposed to the material. So a subset of these folks may say such things as "if you cannot understand this, you are too dumb to do calculus". Thus, though they may be able to solve a calculus exercise, these arrogant ignoramuses are blind with respect to the beginning students needs, so their opinions are irrelevant to the situation. If one is trying to learn calculus, the last thing one requires is the triviality of arrogance. Since introductory textbooks and their associated solutions manuals should suit the ultimate purpose of promoting understanding, this manual fails.
The solutions manual, much like the inferior Stewart textbook (see my review of the text), often reads like a professor's "notes to myself" manual. Some "solutions" read thusly: 1. Restatement of problem 2. Statement of one or two intermediate steps 3. Solution. This book contains many such solutions, thereby providing breadth at the expense of depth.
Though it can be done, a beginning calculus student should not spend much time trying to fill in the blanks in the author's reasoning - he or she should be learning the subject of calculus. I recommend the George F. Simmons Calculus and Analytic Geometry text, or the Anton Calculus: A New Horizon text and its associated solutions manual. ...
