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by adeledeweylopez 3406 days ago
Keisler has a introductory text book (available free here: https://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html) that uses non-standard analysis, which he claims is easier for beginners to understand than the notorious delta-epsilon proofs.

I can't say how effective it is at that goal, but it is all mathematically legitimate, and has a nice intuitive appeal to it.

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Looks similar to this book, which I bought after a recommendation here: https://www.amazon.com/Infinitesimal-Calculus-Dover-Books-Ma...