This book introduces the concepts of The Calculus in a different way. This method of Thompson skips the idea of limits and instead focuses more on some tricks that one can use to ease into The Calculus. It includes a number of problems to do and covers most of the basics of differential and integral Calculus. I enjoyed it, but I didn't have any need to go into any real depth so I skimmed over the problems, which probably lowered my understanding. However, I have had Calculus in a classroom setting before.

Bottom line, this book is pretty good. I liked the approach taken by Thompson in this work, and the edits by Martin Gardner made it more accessible to a modern audience. ( )

Didn't get very far with this ( Understood the prolouge and that was about it ) Not ready for calculus easy or not I guess ( )

A good conceptual help to the study of calculus with practice problems. ( )

I'm a software developer and have had my interests in Mathematics for quite some time now. But my knowledge about Calculus was very limited. Hence I picked up this book.

The book has real simple language and of course since this a book about an advanced concept, the reader is expected to have some background in Mathematics.

The author provides some examples practicing which gets the concepts ingrained in the readers' mind. I'll be honest, I didn't solve most of the problems (that was not my intention of reading the book either).

The book goes into some depth and talks about chain rule, product rule and the quotient rule in Differential Calculus.

It would've made it the book better if it had a chapter on Limits as well. ( )

Didn't get very far with this ( Understood the prolouge and that was about it ) Not ready for calculus easy or not I guess ( )