Re:Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at ...
by Jonas4321 on Saturday January 21, 2023 @06:52AM
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I disagree. L'Hôpital's rule is not discussed, it is simply presented without proof. And I think it's very important to carefully construct logarithms, exponentials and trigonometric functions, e.g. through power series - else the properties of these functions are just arbitrary axioms. Don't Hubbard and Hubbard claim themselves that the reader should be familiar with power series (somewhere in the chapter on Taylor series)?
Don't get me wrong, I really like the book, but I don't believe it replaces a book on single-variable calculus. I think the authors would agree.
If this is a concern, you can always use another text. I don't think this is a problem. Some freshman courses jump straight into Hubbard.