2009 Daley Log
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I now want to return to calculus and the study of Limits. I have previously read Chapter 2 Limits and Continuity from "Calculus Know-It-All" and completed the exercises at the end of the chapter.
Now I want to read Chapter 3 "Introduction to Limits" from "The Calculus Lifesaver" to see what additional information I may find. I will have my yellow highlighter in hand to identify important points.
This was an excellent chapter! It is very clearly written and covers all of the different types of situations involving limits. Conceptually, I feel that I genuinely understand this. It is also refreshing to see that the epsilon-delta formalism that I learned in first year calculus is now pushed to an appendix. There is a place for such formalism, but it should come later, after one has a comfortable sense of the fundamental idea.
The next chapter in this book describes some actual techniques for evaluating limits. I will read this chapter next.
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