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This book is for instructors who think that most calculus textbooks are too long. In writing the book, James Stewart asked himself: What is essential for a three-semester calculus course for scientists and engineers? ESSENTIAL CALCULUS, Second Edition, offers a concise approach to teaching calculus that focuses on major concepts, and supports those concepts with precise definitions, patient explanations, and carefully graded problems. The book is only 900 pages--two-thirds the size of Stewart's other calculus texts, and yet it contains almost all of the same topics. The author achieved this relative brevity primarily by condensing the exposition and by putting some of the features on the book's website, www.StewartCalculus.com. Despite the more compact size, the book has a modern flavor, covering technology and incorporating material to promote conceptual understanding, though not as prominently as in Stewart's other books. ESSENTIAL CALCULUS features the same attention to detail, eye for innovation, and meticulous accuracy that have made Stewart's textbooks the best-selling calculus texts in the world.
I really love this book. I used it since calc one, and here I am using it for my final semester of calc. I would say only 5% of the book's explanations are bad, but everything else is really well written. It's great to reference back to as well. I haven't gotten below a 90 on any calc exam, amd even achieved an A in calc 2. Don't let the low star reviews discourage you. Those are either complaints about the physical quality (which to me is great), shipping experience (not the responsibility of the book haha), arriving in bad condition (that's the seller's fault, not the book's fault, those reviews should be on the seller's page), not having the access code (which isn't even advertised to be included), and other dumb things like not liking the course. As long as you're a hard working student who takes time to actually read and understand the material, this book will serve you well. Highly recommended.
