Presented the concepts quite simply and readably. The choices for initial examples and exercises were sometimes more complex than they needed to be, bringing in complexities unrelated to what was being taught. But all in all was a helpful book.

Great explanation of the basic concepts but looks the author rushed in the last few topics.

Oh, yeah, it's great.

I'm a software developer and have had my interests in Mathematics for quite some time now. But my knowledge about Calculus was very limited. Hence I picked up this book.

The book has real simple language and of course since this a book about an advanced concept, the reader is expected to have some background in Mathematics.

The author provides some examples practicing which gets the concepts ingrained in the readers' mind. I'll be honest, I didn't solve most of the problems (that was not my intention of reading the book either).

The book goes into some depth and talks about chain rule, product rule and the quotient rule in Differential Calculus.

It would've made it the book better if it had a chapter on Limits as well.

This book introduces the concepts of The Calculus in a different way. This method of Thompson skips the idea of limits and instead focuses more on some tricks that one can use to ease into The Calculus. It includes a number of problems to do and covers most of the basics of differential and integral Calculus. I enjoyed it, but I didn't have any need to go into any real depth so I skimmed over the problems, which probably lowered my understanding. However, I have had Calculus in a classroom setting before.

Bottom line, this book is pretty good. I liked the approach taken by Thompson in this work, and the edits by Martin Gardner made it more accessible to a modern audience.

For the first time in my life, I love reading calculus.

Yo creo que si no has visto nada de cálculo en tu vida, está bien

This, quite literally, is my favorite Math book until now. I had no clue it existed, and was only guided towards it by the notes of Steven Strogatz in one of his books. It was written in 1914, and presents an approach to Calculus from Leibniz's point of view - which I had never seen before - for an audience with some mathematical maturity but not mathematical rigor. Everything about this book, starting from the title, "Calculus Made Easy - Being a very-simplest introduction to those beautiful methods which are generally called by the terrifying names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus", to the motto, "What one fool can do, another can.", to the philosophy of approaching a concept was simply beautiful. Even though I have encountered Calculus countless times during my days as a student, I am just glad that I had the pleasure of reading this gem by Mr. Thompson.

It is difficult rating a text book. I do know that I will buy this book for all my children when they are taking Calculus. Though it was written in 1910, it is amazingly understandable. One thing I enjoyed about working my way through this book was that the exercises given at the end of the chapters was exceedingly difficult.

Good introduction book to the concepts of calculus. If you are looking for a refresher to high school level calculus or a introductory read, this is the book for you. However, if you want an exhaustive reference book or a textbook suitable for college level engineering or mathematics, there are better books out there because this book lacks rigour and does not dive into deeper, more advanced topics and applications of calculus.

Overall, it serves my intended purpose of refreshing myself and solidifying the concepts I learnt in high school, which I learnt by rote-learning then.

I felt held by this book

Readers will surely realise this book and that in many respects the calculus is an art rather than science. an art only to be acquired , as all other arts are, by practice. :D

You can download a PDF of the 1914 edition at djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Tho... and you may in fact want to do that.