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Slay the calculus monster with this user-friendly guide Calculus For Dummies, 2 nd Edition makes calculus manageable-even if youre one of the many students who sweat at the thought of it. By breaking down differentiation and integration into digestible concepts, this guide helps you build a stronger foundation with a solid understanding of the big ideas at work. This user-friendly math book leads you step-by-step through each concept, operation, and solution, explaining the how and why in plain English instead of math-speak. Through relevant instruction and practical examples, youll soon learn that real-life calculus isnt nearly the monster its made out to be. Calculus is a required course for many college majors, and for students without a strong math foundation, it can be a real barrier to graduation.
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A graduate of Brown University and the University of Wisconsin LawSchool, Mark Ryan has been teaching math for over 12 years. He runsthe Math Center in Winnetka, Illinois, where he teaches high schoolmath courses and a workshop for parents based on his book, The 10Habits of Highly Successful Math Students. In high school, he twicescored a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT, and he not onlyknows mathematics, he has a gift for explaining it in plainEnglish. You'll enjoy his down-to-earth style, his humor, and his manyuseful math tips and shortcuts that will enable you to DO THE MATH. Atournament backgammon player and an avid skier and tennis player, helives in Chicago.
