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Good calculus texts anyone?

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:07 pm
by renegade
Hi renegade,

The only book, besides "Cracking the GRE", I used for my Calculus preparation was "Real Analysis" by H.Royden. Only first couple of chapters you need to cover actually. Being able to solve problems from Royden, you should not have problems with calculus questions on subject test.

According to other literature, I found M.Artin's "Algebra" as very good book. Cannot recommend any on combinatorics/diff.eq./number theory though.

Wish you good luck on test!

Re: Good calculus texts anyone?

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:41 pm
by trevaskis
Anton's calculus is pretty good.

Re: Good calculus texts anyone?

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 2:14 am
by prong
i said probability because i know it least.

calculus is really important on the gre, though.

Re: Good calculus texts anyone?

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:50 am
by bobn
My Picks

Calculus :: Apostol 2 volumes + Thomas/Finny + more the best, thumb rule is you need to finish 60 questions in 2hrs practice for that speed and precision
Abstract :: Herstein + Gallian
Linear :: Insel
Real Analysis :: Arthur Mattuck + Rudin
Complex Analysis :: Brown
Probability :: Any Good book
Differential Equations :: Edwards and Penny
Number Theory :: Gareth
Topology :: Munkres + Lee ( Introduction to Topological Manifolds)
Combinatorics :: Kevin Ferland

Re: Good calculus texts anyone?

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:31 pm
by renegade
trevaskis wrote:Anton's calculus is pretty good.
Which one? There is "Calculus: A New Horizon", "Calculus Early Transcendentals Single Variable", "Calculus Late Transcendentals Combined", "Calculus with Analytic Geometry" etc...

Re: Good calculus texts anyone?

Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:32 pm
by trevaskis
A new horizon.

Re: Good calculus texts anyone?

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:37 am
by Ergodic
Hi renegade, got your PM. I think you're overthinking it (as so many of us here have done in preparation for the test.) Just pick a damn Calculus book and work some damn problems in it, and under timed conditions! The books I happened to use are Stewart's "Calculus: Early Transcendentals" (4th ed) and for Precalc I used Larson and Hostetler's "Precalculus" (4th ed.)

You should pick problems that are related conceptually in as many ways possible as problems you'll encounter on the test, and give yourself 2.5 minutes per problem, just like on the test. This is, of course, presupposing you've already worked through all the practice problems on all the available tests.

Also, I'm not necessarily the best guy to ask on this, since I actually missed over a quarter of the problems on the exam (8 missed, 10 omitted.) But maybe that's good enough for this year.