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Not the same thing, Personally, I would not use the Feynman Lectures to start with. They are great if you alreayd know the material and...

It may be too late for IPhO or it might not, but it definitely won't be too late to dramatically increase your understanding of Physics...

You can go to Pearson's website http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/discipline/Mathematics/91000051.page" , click on "Calculus" on...

yes that remark piqued my interest as well. there are applications in apostol in chapters 2,4,8,14, but the word "volume" does not even...

Welcome to PF. Can you give a specific example from the book? I would be interested in what you consider a practical problem. Thanks...

This thread is intended to give high school students the necessary information to cope with university level mathematics. I find the...

Have started Thomas's calculus, find it to be awesome.

I prefer Chartrand over Velleman. Although Velleman is more fun to read, I think Chartrand's book is very instructional and offering...

Just a thought, but there may be a limited market for fully rigorous multi-variable calculus. Rigorous single-variable calculus is...

I think it would be helpful to learn the language of manifolds and differential forms for differential geometry and relativity. Spivak...

In my opinion, Apostol vol2 is ideal preparation for spivak on manifolds. In fact you probably don't need spivak afterwards, but if you...

My thoughts are, being able to prove a+b is commutative doesn't necessarily help with learning physics. But the more comfortable you are...

I would suggest working from Thomas 3rd ed and buying 2 other books. How to Prove it and Naive Set Theory. Then after working out of...

have you tried apostol's book? i learned a lot also from thomas's book, the early version from the 1950's that is. also courant is a...

why not just try to master the book your class is using? you are rather obviously not ready for spivak's book. so why are you reading...