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Title: Student Solutions Manual for Stewart's Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals by Daniel Anderson, Jeffery A. Cole, Daniel Drucker, Stewart ISBN: 0-534-36301-6 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
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.
Rating: 1
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. ...
Rating: 2
Summary: So-So Solutions
Comment: Stewart is a rich man from his Calculus texts! He highly esteemed by many academic professionals who often brag about talking to him.
He is certainly not in touch with a student's mind and how it learns; his text is a real turn-off and depletes enjoyment of the subject. I agree with another reviewer, Larson's text is far superior. Thank goodness a friend loaned it to me for the semester. I receive more insight into my homework from that text book than from this solution manual. As if the HARDCOVER text was so inexpensive.
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Title: Calculus: Early Transcendentals (with CD-ROM) by James Stewart ISBN: 0534393217 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 20 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $135.95 |
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Title: Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals by James Stewart ISBN: 0534355633 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 19 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $105.95 |
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Title: Multivariable Calculus: Stewart's Student Manual by Dan Clegg, Barbara Frank ISBN: 0534359574 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: Calculus Single Variable 5th Edition (with CD-ROM) by James Stewart ISBN: 0534393667 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $108.95 |
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Title: Study Guide for Stewart's Single Variable Calculus by Richard St. Andre, Richard A. Stewart ISBN: 0534364314 Publisher: Thomson Learning Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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