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_Calculus Made Easy_ by Thompson (now in a new edition revised by Martin Gardner) was a former classic used by all sorts of people, and Feynman learned calculus from _Calculus for the Practical Man_, which was hardly sophisticated by modern standards. As long as you stick to a book some sizeable number of people think is okay, I don't think it matters that much what you learn from; the important thing is that you work through theorems carefully enough that you really understand them. Whether it's Spivak or Velleman or Thompson or OpenStax or Stewart (only for those who are assigned it, since otherwise there's no reason to spend >=$100 on it—it's not worth the premium) or Ross (his _Elementary Analysis_ book), worry about learning the concepts more than worrying about which book you chose. You can always refer to alternative books or youtube videos if a concept isn't clear in the primary book you chose.


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