Calculus Made Easy

Had to do a Calculus course in uni despite not having taken any calc or pre-calc in high school. "Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell" and "Calculus Made Easy" were complete lifesavers.

I second this suggestion for Calculus Made Easy by Thompson. It's become a bit of a classic...was published in like 1915. Super unique approach to teaching calculus. It's an excellent supplement...lots of good insights. It may be particularly good for people who believe they're bad at math. His style may convince people otherwise. Also, Vibrations and Waves, by AP French. Granted, this is a physics book, but I appreciate his style so much. He makes use of a lot of geometric methods to solving problems. It definitly expanded my math horizons! His other books are good too.

I liked that book. It uses differentials to give simple explanations of various derivatives, which seems to be frowned upon these days. You can download the book for free if I'm not mistaken. I once recommended it to a calculus class I was TAing for, though I don't think they were very impressed.

Nothing can replace a teacher, much less a good one, but I recently stumbled upon an introduction book on calculus from 1910 (yes last century) that had a really nice way to explain things. I just read the beginning so I don't know how far it goes but anyway here the link https://calculusmadeeasy.org/

You could check out Burn Math Class: https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Math-Class-Reinvent-Mathematics/... (https://www.amazon.com/Burn-Math-Class-Reinvent-Mathematics/dp/0465053734#reader_B017QL8UHU) or Calculus Made Easy: https://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/keislercalc-09-04-19.pdf

"Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910). It is availably freely online via the Gutenberg project and many other forms too. Chapter 1 is probably the best mathematics chapter I have ever read [0]. In two paragraphs, it beats most other calculus books. [0] http://calculusmadeeasy.org/1.html

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson I was surprised to find out how old this text was. It hasn't aged a day!

I want some recommendations on good math books on: calculus, discrete math, probabilities, statistics Calculus Made Easy by Silvanius P. Thompson (Feynman taught himself calc with this book) Concrete Mathematics by Knuth, Graham, Patashnik Fundamentals of Applied Probability Theory by Alvin Drake You probably want to learn Linear Algebra - get Gilbert Strang's book. The Schuam's outlines in each topic are good for review. I like the ancient ones, usually there are dozens of them for next to nothing at any good used bookstore.