I'm seeking suggestions for a calculus textbook that I could use to teach myself the subject.
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[Personal details removed.] I know that most calculus textbooks are designed to be taught to classes, so I was wondering if anyone knew of a textbook specifically designed for autodidacts, or one that would be particularly useful for the purpose. (If you just know of a good general textbook, I'd be grateful to hear that as well.)
Thanks to anyone who gives a suggestion.
EDIT: Chose a Marvin-Gardner-edited version of Calculus Made Easy, accompanied by Khan Academy lessons.
Could someone give me an opinion on Spivak's Calculus? I picked this book for voluntary study because of the uniformly positive reviews but haven't started plunging into it yet.
Spivak is good and well-loved and even has a sense of humor.
Note that there are two ways to learn calculus: the high-school way, without proofs (Stewart is a good example) and the college-level way, with epsilon-delta proofs (Spivak is this kind.) You should decide what fits your needs best. You don't necessarily need to learn high-school-style calculus first -- my first intro to calculus was Serge Lang's book, which is similar to Spivak but more compressed -- but if you're just getting started computing derivatives it may help to do some physics problems to build intuition.