[GFKjunior]

I recommend Calculus Made Easy by Thompson. This book is short but complete. I read it at 22.

I gave up on mathematics after my first college course but found that for everything I wanted to get into, Machine Learning & Bayesian stats, it was essential . A year later I know math better than ever before even though I haven't stepped inside a classroom in years.

You're probably getting bored because most math books are hundreds of pages long and in addition to the material they include mathematicians bio's, several solution methods, and the explanations of edge cases.

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You can't justify a $200 price tag for a 100 page text book.

[lutusp]

That might sometimes be true, but the textbook the OP referred to is less than $16.00:

http://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/d...

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Which is why no one will ever use it, because you can't justify a $200 price tag for a 100 page text books.

e.g. no college will ever endorse this book as a text, because they need to sell 60k in calc 101 text books each semester so they can get their cut.

[lutusp]

> ... no college will ever endorse this book as a text ...

Yes, fair enough, however I think the discussion is not so much about schooling as education. Not all education takes place in college -- and with costs rising as they are, I predict a future with many more autodidacts -- self-educators.

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain