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@kidskylark Honestly?
Thomas' Calculus or Calculus by James Stewart.
Good, solid textbooks. I've never found a resource online that compares and still covers everything that you need.
Then you can go in for specific sections with various online resources and will likely have a much better time with the narrower query.
Endorse! I still use my 30 yo textbook when I need a refresher.
Look for one with problem sets and answers. my 1990s era Thomas is good for that.
Absolutely.
When I was in school my Calc III prof said "do not get rid of your calculus textbook (Stewart's). Others, sure, absolutely. But you will find that you regret giving up your calculus textbook."
It has traveled with me through multiple moves, the spine is basically destroyed from how much I have used the book over the last two+ decades, but I still have it and it is still worth keeping.
@hrefna @kidskylark 100% agree. Old textbooks can be found much more cheaply than new ones, and are often more simply written.
And you need good problems! Math can’t be learned without doing any more than you can learn ballet from watching.
@hrefna @kidskylark Thomas & Finney was good back in the 80s but it suffers from real analysis disease like most intro texts. An alternate route that may be more accessible without sacrificing rigor is Elementary Calculus: An Infinitessimal Approach by Jerome Keisler https://people.math.wisc.edu/~hkeisler/calc.html
It's closer to the original, more intuitive calculus before it got bogged down in limits and convergence and all that tedious real analysis glop.
Sorry I'm Nasty @hrefna
This makes my heart sing. Dr James Stewart was a prof of mine at #McMaster. Such a wonderful man.
He was writing his book(s) while we were students 45 years ago. He would pass around chapters and pay anyone $5 for finding a mistake or a hard to understand passage. Nobody made much.
He was also a very good musician. (First violin in the Mac and concert in #HamOnt orchestra).
He made a ton of money off his books.
Sadly he died a few years ago. His house that he designed went up for sale on Toronto. Math and music themes.
Here is a link to a a short view of his house.
Search for Integral House for some lovely pictures.
Yes. My 20 yo nephew uses the book.