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Try "Calculus Made Easy" (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf) -- it was Richard Feynman's first calculus book, and it explains things in a way unlike any other book.

Here is a famous quote where he references a passage from the book's prologue:

"Right. I don't believe in the idea that there are a few peculiar people capable of understanding math, and the rest of the world is normal. Math is a human discovery, and it's no more complicated than humans can understand. I had a calculus book once that said, 'What one fool can do, another can.' What we've been able to work out about nature may look abstract and threatening to someone who hasn't studied it, but it was fools who did it, and in the next generation, all the fools will understand it. There's a tendency to pomposity in all this, to make it deep and profound." -- Feynman, Omni 1979 (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FeynmanAlgorithm)



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