![]() I receieved an A in the course, from there I quit my job and enrolled at a university to study Applied Mathematics. I wanted some confirmation that, perhaps I was not too bad at the subject and to overcome some of the mathematical anxiety I experience all through high school. I felt I was getting quite good at Calculus after reading what I could of Stewart (most of my way through Calc II) that I decided to take a summer Calculus 1 course at a nearby college. For me, it really wasn't until I was able to remove myself from the school system and read several Algebra text books and then felt quite prepared to take on Calculus. I was always placed in the accelerated program for mathematics when I was in High School and Elementary School, but I definitely always had a lot of trouble engaging the material during school itself. I did not really know what I wanted to do, but I remembered having a passing interest in maths (this is in my late 20's). I was not formally trained in mathematics at the time, and I was opting for a rather drastic career change from working in the Financial Industry. However, when I was first teaching myself Calculus a little over ten years ago, this was the text I had picked up, albeit it was an old edition, the 2nd Edition to be specific. ![]() With regards to full disclosure, I am a professor of Mathematics, so I have definitely read this from a very different perspective compared to a student learning for the first time. Not only have I read a maths text, I have actually done a huge portion of the problems in the book. I have done something almost no one does.
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