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“Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks.”

I really wish technical books were still written like this. Though if Thompson posted this on HN as a comment he probably would have been downvoted.

There is also a web goodlooking version, discussed previously in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18250034

Similarly, Stroud's "Engineering Mathematics" takes you right from addition all the way up to Fourier transforms... a fantatsic book.

This should be your first calculus book if you are learning from scratch. Much better than those 1000+ page behemoths colleges use.