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    Advanced Calculus

    I need to brush up on this quickly - multi-variable calculus including partial differentiation, improper and multiple integrals. Just need an overview.
    Any maths gurus out there who can recommend a good, concise overview?
    My basic calculus is OK.
    Hard Brexit now!
    #prayfornodeal

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    Milan's just changing a tape, he'll give you a hand when he gets back.

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      #3
      Originally posted by sasguru View Post
      I need to brush up on this quickly - multi-variable calculus including partial differentiation, improper and multiple integrals. Just need an overview.
      Just the same really, except the numbers are unreal until you want them to be.

      Originally posted by sasguru View Post
      Any maths gurus out there who can recommend a good, concise overview?
      Yes

      Originally posted by sasguru View Post
      My basic calculus is OK.
      You'd be stuffed then.
      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
      threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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        #4
        I have found Schaum's Outline books to be very good to help brush up on skills. They are pretty cheap, concise, cover many topics and use lots of examples rather than going through lengthly derivations. I have recently been working through the statistics and probability ones and found them to be very useful.
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          #5
          PM'd you.
          Have patience. In time, even grass becomes milk.

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            Spivak

            What else is there?
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              #7
              Originally posted by MrRobin View Post
              I have found Schaum's Outline books to be very good to help brush up on skills. They are pretty cheap, concise, cover many topics and use lots of examples rather than going through lengthly derivations. I have recently been working through the statistics and probability ones and found them to be very useful.
              Thanks - had a look on Amazon, sounds just the ticket and at the right price.
              Looks like Foyles this evening, then.
              Hard Brexit now!
              #prayfornodeal

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                #8
                Tell me what level of "basic" you are good at. Doing a OU Degree with calculus included and the majority of the course materials could be liberated as pdfs.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                  Spivak

                  What else is there?
                  Will have a look at that too, although from the contents it doesn't seem to do multi-variable?
                  Hard Brexit now!
                  #prayfornodeal

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                    #10
                    Good luck. Don't envy you - partial derivatives =
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