Department of Mathematics, UBC, 2018. — 709 p.
The CLP calculus textbooks and problem books were written for standard university Calculus 1, 2, 3 and 4 courses at the Department of Mathematics, UBC.
The authors are three UBC Mathematics Department faculty, Joel Feldman, Andrew Rechnitzer and Elyse Yeager who wrote the texts and problems during (roughly) 2015-2018.
The initial impetus for writing the texts was the ever rising cost of textbooks.
This book is organized into four sections: Questions, Hints, Answers, and Solutions. As you are working problems, resist the temptation to prematurely peek at the back! It's important to allow yourself to struggle for a time with the material. Even professional mathematicians don't always know right away how to solve a problem. The art is in gathering your thoughts and guring out a strategy to use what you know to nd out what you don't.
If you nd yourself at a real impasse, go ahead and look for a hint in the Hints section. Think about it for a while, and don't be afraid to read back in the notes to look for a key idea that will help you proceed. If you still can't solve the problem, well, we included the Solutions section for a reason! As you're reading the solutions, try hard to understand why we took the steps we did, instead of memorizing step-by-step how to solve that one particular problem.
If you struggled with a question quite a lot, it's probably a good idea to return to it in a few days. That might have been enough time for you to internalize the necessary ideas, and you might nd it easily conquerable. Pat yourself on the back{sometimes math makes you feel good! If you're still having troubles, read over the solution again, with an emphasis on understanding why each step makes sense.
One of the reasons so many students are required to study calculus is the hope that it will improve their problem-solving skills. In this class, you will learn lots of concepts, and be asked to apply them in a variety of situations. Often, this will involve answering one really big problem by breaking it up into manageable chunks, solving those chunks, then putting the pieces back together. When you see a particularly long question, remain calm and look for a way to break it into pieces you can handle.