I am a science student but i found no interest in calcalus at all!

 

So can anyone recommend me a book that can get me interested in it?

what science are you in? and why do you want to learn calculus??

there really isn't a non textbook that will interest you in calc

Principia mathmatica......its worth a try, its written by Newton.

Are ya in Physics?

Thnks, i am in physics

if your in physics how do you not know calculus? Its one of the principal foundations of modern physics.

I don't think you have to learn calculus, they said I didn't have to take the Calc class, they said to take stats???

In high school? this would only be good if you did not want to further your learning in Physics, as neurocomp said "Its one of the principal foundations of modern physics."

Yeah, I'm going into Biology. That's the plan at least

the least of all sciences [oops] in university its essential you have a good grasp of calculus....not that i do

Demosthenes - to do biology you'll need a good grasp of stats, as most of biology uses statistics in some form. You won't use calc much but it can't hurt to know how to use it.

and it depends on what form of biology you take....

mathematical biology is fun...you model populations...cell formation...biological potentials...neuronal growth

the ladder i think is the hardest because its got really complicated

DE equations.

I KNOW calcalus, it is just that I am not interested in it.

well you reallly can't get interested in calculus unless you plan to be a math major...

 

however it really depends on what you nee dthe calculus for.

I was never enthused about math i think its a rear thing, everybody needs it and thats the only reason its so popular

Neurocomp2003 said in post # :

well you reallly can't get interested in calculus unless you plan to be a math major...

 

That's just not true. I've got lots of friends (some of whom aren't even taking a degree or not taking a degree in a science subjects) who find calculus very interesting. It all comes down to the way it was taught - I mean, if your teacher did the boring examples all the time, it's gonna look pretty dismal. Luckily I had a teacher who gave us optional fun things like integrating 1/(1+x^4) and showed us quite a lot of very nice examples all related to calculus.

 

You really can't generalize like that, because calculus is a very diverse area of mathematics, and hence it's going to touch a lot of people in a lot of different fields of work.

I find it fun using the stuff i leanred to show stuff i know actually works. like if i just learned integration using polar co ordinates. i check if the area of circle is really pirsqaured. or to check a length of a curve etc etc. good practice and so much fun

Indeed, just depends how you're taught it.

One of the most helpful calculus texts is

 

Calculus: A Physical & Intuitive Approach by Morris Kline

 

he's one of my favourite authors