Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 680 pages
- Published by: Publish or Perish; fourth edition July 9, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0914098918
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0914098911
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Book Dimensions:
10 x 9.3 x 1.6 inches
- Weighs: 3.9 pounds
Product Description
This edition differs from the third mainly in the inclusion of additional problems, as well as a complete update of the Suggested Reading, together with some changes of exposition, mainly in Chapters 5 and 20.
Reader Reviews
Some reviewers have been puzzled as to the style of this book, deep mathematics for the unsophisticated reader. This is explained by its origin in the 1960's when many bright high school students were not offered calculus until college. Hence some top colleges experimented with very high level introductions to calculus aimed at gifted and committed students who had never seen calculus. Possibly Spivak took such a course, but certainly his book was used as the text for one at Harvard, and was still used more recently at a few schools still offering this course, such as University of Chicago.
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