Calculus

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Does anyone know of an excellent online or free way of learning calculus, such as a book, that includes practice problems? I know we do not need it for medical school, but I would like to learn it anyway and feel that it will enhance my ability to advance in medically related academic material.
 
You'd be be much better off learning more about statistics than you would calculus for medical school. Your desire to learn more is admirable but you'd be wasting your time if you primarily focused on calculus to help in trying to understand medically related academic material. Most, if not all, of our lectures primarily use statistics (p-values, biases, t-values, ANOVA etc.)--I don't think calculus based information has ever been mentioned in lecture. Additionally the papers we read and discuss also primarily use statistics. If you're more interested in learning calculus for the MCAT, it's mostly algebra based anyways too.

However, if you still really want to focus on calculus there's Wolfram Alpha that I know of. When I put in 'calculus resources' in Google a lot of things showed up. You can try that search and see if there's anything that you like.
 
Does anyone know of an excellent online or free way of learning calculus, such as a book, that includes practice problems? I know we do not need it for medical school, but I would like to learn it anyway and feel that it will enhance my ability to advance in medically related academic material.

Google Paul’s Online Math Notes.
 
Khan Academy. A lot of medical schools want to see people take calc I though.

Most med schools want calc or stats. Stats is significantly more useful than calc. Unless you’re applying to top research schools that require calc, it’s not worth taking (although as a mathematician, I’m biased in favor of it).
 
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