On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:33 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 .....
Big +1 to that. This is why the two books I've published (e.g., this one: http://wstein.org/ent/) are short and readable. I love a math book that one can really read cover to cover. I find those huge thousand page books just baffling. William -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en.
