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Book Review of A Tour of the Calculus

A Tour of the Calculus
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This book is sort of like a condensed Reader's Digest version of a first-year calculus textbook, written by an over-enthusiastic math student turned dramatic actor. Unless you are familiar with the math in the first place, it will be hard to fathom his explanations, and the rest is like sitting through an endless conversation with a drunken grad student trying to impress you with pedantism -- about math, science, history and every other subject under the sun. Blecherous.