> As far as comparison with Stewart, I would say Stewart is much better. > To be fair, Granville was the calculus text in America for decades. > Now I guess it is Stewart though.
My post is not related to Sage, but ..... When I was student, I really disliked all the long books with a lot of motivation, practical problems, many pictures and other stuff. Books like this are popular in North America, aren't they? I preffered short books with definitions, theorems, about 70% of proofs (the other proofs have been excersizes), few solved problems and few exercizes. I think that books like this are (were?) popular in Russia, since I have seen books like this in libraries. Sometimes my notes from lectures, where lecturer explained and proved in full details all theorems on blackboard, were enough to understand everything and pass without any problem. Do your students really learn about 500 or 800 pages long books to exam? (We have usualy 4-5 exams in one semester.) Sorry if this question is stupid ..... Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
