You seem to be talking about Spivak’s “Calculus on Manifolds”, while the post is about “Calculus”. Munkres’s “Analysis on Manifolds” is a more didactically forgiving book than “Calculus on Manifolds” (and Hubbard’s book works as preparation for both).
That’s quite possible—I spent some time trying to figure out which was which but gave up and no longer have my copy. Which one is known as “baby Spivak”? (That’s the one I was referring to.)
You seem to be talking about Spivak’s “Calculus on Manifolds”, while the post is about “Calculus”. Munkres’s “Analysis on Manifolds” is a more didactically forgiving book than “Calculus on Manifolds” (and Hubbard’s book works as preparation for both).
That’s quite possible—I spent some time trying to figure out which was which but gave up and no longer have my copy. Which one is known as “baby Spivak”? (That’s the one I was referring to.)