textbooks

[Anonymous No.9123585]

Did any of you use a textbook for calculus 1? I'm not sure if it's necessary.

[Anonymous No.9123587]

>>9123585
no bully, just get the PDF mate, almost all books are accessible online regardless of legality, haven't bought a single book my entire undergrad career.

[Anonymous No.9123600]

Yes. I was shit at math. I had some low tier calc textbook that covered calc 1-3. I did at least 10 problems every day. Even if its a low tier, as long as you have a decent professor and a lot of practice problems, the physical textbook will be worth having. Well, it was worth it to me.

[Anonymous No.9123603]

>>9123585
How can you learn it? Through osmosis?

Get a book.

[Anonymous No.9123643]

>>9123585
I still refer to my old calculus textbook once in a while.

[Anonymous No.9123652]

>>9123643
oh okay because my manlet friend never used a textbook and he got a B+. In fact he didn't even buy one. Good money saver on his part.

[Anonymous No.9123657]

>>9123585
My stewart textbook will be useful until at least the end of calculus II.
Didn't use it much during calculus I, only when the professor needed to get replaced and we got a more formulaic teacher

[Anonymous No.9123958]

>>9123657
>stewart

[Anonymous No.9123982]

>>9123652
>B+
>Good

going into industry huh

[Anonymous No.9123999]

>>9123652
your manlet friend?

[Anonymous No.9124007]

>>9123585
Pirate the textbook and learn the material on your own, you fucking brainlet.

[Anonymous No.9124010]

>>9124007
>Pirate the textbook
This. I used Thomas's Calculus. It had the solutions manual and everything.

[Anonymous No.9124029]

Why is it that ameritards learn calc in uni? First class i attended in uni was anal and we used Zorich in first semester and big Rudin+Demidovich in second semester. Even physishits go straight to anal, only engineers have clac before brushing on anal.

[Anonymous No.9124565]

>>9124029
American high school only requires three years of math and it doesn't matter which classes. It's the reason I'm shit at mathematics because I finished math sophomore year (did semester math classes in homeschooling). I'm taking calc now and I can't even remember basic algebra and trig since I haven't seen it in 4 years.

I feel so dumb

[Anonymous No.9124574]

>>9123657
>>9123958

[Anonymous No.9124586]

We had to buy Adam & Essex for calc 1.
It helped me for calc 2 (vectorial analysis), pde (everytime i needed a reminder on particular case of ode) and I still use it time to time for reference or when i'm stuck on the basic stuff (it's awful how fast you can forget basic calc 1 when you're not using it).
So yes, it's always a good
investment (if the book you plan to buy has a reasonable price ofc).

[Anonymous No.9124599]

>>9123652
>B+
>Good
You know that A in Calculus is required for Grad School.
Enjoy your future underpaid job.
At least isn't C aka Job in Mc Donald's

[Anonymous No.9125107]

>>9124565
Rightfully so. But honestly, calc textbooks are useless, if you just read Kolmogorov, you're ready for anal and that's where you'll actually understand calc. There's no reason at all to learn calc before anal to the degree it's in those books.

[Anonymous No.9125122]

>>9124574
>Shelah's archive, as of February 2017 lists 1103 mathematical papers including joint papers with over 220 co-authors.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharon_Shelah
Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.9125149]

>>9124599
What if I get a B in calculus I and an A in calculus II & III?

It won't matter at that point will it?

[Anonymous No.9125563]

>>9125149
What if?

[Anonymous No.9125793]

>>9125122
P H E N O T Y P E

[Anonymous No.9125819]

>>9123585
I didn't "need" one till I got to calc II because all our homework was take him worksheets, then I used it pretty much the rest of the time because the teacher had taken hw problems straight from the book.

[Anonymous No.9125821]

>>9123585
No, we used webassign

[Anonymous No.9125857]

>>9125149
I actually got a B in calc 1 and an A for calc 2/3.

Is this a normal thing?