Up until I took calculus from this book I thought I was pretty good in math. On several occasions I read the author's presentations over and over. Either he has no idea how to explain things OR I have simply lost my math ability. I hope it is the latter because I need to take two other math courses. Hopefully, they will not be courses that use books by this author.

I cannot recommend this text for use with students who need help with calculus. Perhaps students who already know calculus might find the book interesting, but that is only a guess. I can attest to the fact that the typical student in my class found the text disjointed, frustrating, and verbose.

This book is not the worst book on calculus, but it's one of the bad ones. If you're a professor or already learned calculus, you'll probably won't have trouble following it. However, for students like me taking calculus for the first time in my life, I find it VERY VERY hard to follow. I "was made" to purchase this book because my school uses this book. .. Wanna learn Calculus? STAY AWAY FROM Stewarts calulus!

I am a reader from Czech Republic and I have to state that I have never seen a nicer book about calculus for beginners. I wish all unhappy people about this book would see books students in eastern European countrees are using. If somebody does not understand this book he should review his ability to learn mathematics.This book is written as stated above for beginners, who want quickly learn calculus without worring about proofs and theoretical background of calculus. You can find many color pictures of geometrical representation of calculus stuff, which can be sometimes quite helpful. My only complain is about exercices and review sections etc. I think it should be reduced, because some of them are really dummy. But ok, maybe it is too subjective.Please, excuse my english.

Again I will say that James Stewart should not be writing calculus textbooks. His book stinks. All it has is a bunch of theroems that are not throughly explained. He has no clear and concise examples to illustrate how the theroems apply to calculus.There are way better calculus textbooks than this one. This is one of the most poorly written calculus textbooks on the teaching market. This book should not even be considered for a learning tool for calculus.In order for this book to be as good as the other calculus textbooks, HE MUST give plenty examples in doing calculus problems on EVERY section. He must make sure that each example is concise and clear with NO mathematical steps skipped.As long as James Stewart's calculus textbook keeps taking shortcuts in illustrating the concepts and methodology of calculus, it will always be a low quality calculus textbook. That is plain and simple.

I used this book for Multivariate Calculus only, but I found it to be clearly worded and very helpful. The exercises I found to be complete. Now, as I am tutoring Calc I and II, I find that another strength of the book is its classical approach, which I appreciate greatly. The author never once leaves a topic solely to the technology, but tells the student the theory behind the technology. That way, the student can instantly recognize whether an answer the computer gives him is correct or not.Highly recommended!