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I started reading this book around February and I was done by the middle of July. It certainly got me engaged in the subject to a point that, the highlight of my week was doing Calculus I began with doing some sparse notes on the first chapters and progressively I improved and structured my notes to even doing the graphs and summarizing the concepts on my on words with a full sequence of the derivations and equations to solve the exercises I did it as a way to explain to my self the concepts the author was sharing since I am doing it on my own. and on my own pace, with no regard or consideration about tests or examinations. It was purely for myself. To my surprise I discovered that I was enjoying this book. very much. It was very satisfying to share on the vision, on the thoughts and on the conclusions from the author and math took a new dimension, a dimension beyond the symbols and the equations, It became alive as a language that was relating to me a story much clear and structured of the things around me, an of the different phenomena and of motion and of time and of constants and initial conditions, of relations and of rates of change, and of limits and of most of all seeing how could I interpret the equations and how to relate theorems and concepts, It was talking of intuition and of rigor on math, of geometric constructs and derivations, and of how could I play with the equations and discern the meaning of the results, and how can I go from generalities and simple conditions on to more complex problems in a progressive escalation on the restrictions, and elements at play, around a set of conditions relating to a problem. I could picture Fermat working in his light theory of least time, hundred years earlier and admired his accomplishment beautiful in his derivation, Kepler in his wondering of celestial motions of planets, and of course the Newtonian achievement of Calculus from the secant to the tangent the vision of a limit concept expressing instantaneous change and the crowning concept of anti differentiation from a sum again approaching a limit expressed by the integral it was especially satisfying to reach to triple integration and see how the geometry scaffold and the calculus make such great team on illuminating over the varied physical phenomena that different sciences work on. Now am eager to continue the discoveries on some other books on Mathematics, on Physics, on Electricity and Magnetism on Chemistry and even my goal Quantum Mechanics, It seems like this book helped me to awaken in me the interest on observing and analyzing a set of conditions and correlate them to mathematical terms having the confidence to try, to err and to try again, to play with the math, to have fun with the equations and to challenge the results, the approach, the concepts. After all mathematical constructs are just that, an expression of our perceived reality, and of our resources and of our limitations, It is a mind endeavor, even a mind game, if you will that comes alive in the equations and through the effort and persistence of so many minds bent on pushing ahead the boundaries of math and science.. It certainly was fun doing this Calculus book Thanks Mr Kline where ever you are Thank you very much.