[Math] Joseph Kitchen’s Calculus (reference)

reference-request

I'm asking about one textbook: Kitchen's Calculus. I tried to get a copy in different libraries but nothing. I tried buying it and I cannot find it wherever I've been. I've heard that is an outstanding book, as good as Spivak or Apostol at the rigorous level, to say the two classics book of Calculus (introduction to real analysis).

Therefore, I ask the following questions:
What happens with the book? The only conclusion for me is that it has been out of print for a long time (for some strange reason). Is there a place where it can get it? Is it as good as someone told me (at the theoretical level)? Does somebody know what is the the table of content?

With theoretical level, I'd like to say:

(The textbook should be rigorous, it should not state a major theorem without a detail proof, and also it should be primarily based on developing the theoretical foundations of calculus).

Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

Let me steal the fame from Dave L. Renfro and Mathemagician, and just format this in a more usable form:

(Renfro -- I've added bibliographic information for some reviews of these books.)

Agnew reviewed by: Edwin George Eigel, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal 3 #8 (Spring 1963), 426; Eric John Fyfe Primrose, Mathematical Gazette 48 #363 (February 1964), 115-116; Robert C. Stewart, American Mathematical Monthly 71 #7 (Aug.-Sept. 1964), 810-811.

Apostol reviewed by: Volume 1 Frederic Cunningham, American Mathematical Monthly 69 #5 (May 1962), 449-451; Yvonne Germaine Marie Chislaine Cuttle, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin 6 #2 (May 1963), 306-307; Karl Menger, Scripta Mathematica 27 #3 (May 1965), 270-272; Ethan David Bolker, American Mathematical Monthly 77 #1 (January 1970), 88-89. Volume 2 Frederic Cunningham, American Mathematical Monthly 70 #5 (May 1963), 587-588.

  • Colin Whitcomb Clark's The Theoretical Side of Calculus (1972): amazon link which is obviously a wrong link

Clark reviewed by: Robert Patrick Webber, American Mathematical Monthly 81 #7 (Aug.-Sept. 1974), 795-796; Jon [Arnold?] Reed, Nordisk Matematisk Tidskrift 27 #4 (1979), 164-165 (in Norwegian). Briefly mentioned in this article.

Courant/John reviewed by: (Volume 1) Robert Alexander Rankin, Mathematical Gazette 51 #376 (May 1967), 164-165.

  • Embry/Schell/Thomas' Calculus and Linear Algebra. An Integrated Approach (1972): amazon link

Embry/Schell/Thomas reviewed by: Norman Schaumberger, Mathematics Teacher 65 #6 (October 1972), 547; Rodney Tabor Hood, American Mathematical Monthly 80 #4 (April 1973), 453-454.

Hille reviewed by: (Volume I) Joseph Leo Doob, Science (N.S.) 147 #3662 (5 March 1965), 1135-1136; (Volume I) Donald Everett Richmond, American Mathematical Monthly 73 #1 (January 1966), 100-101; (Volume II) Judith Molinar Elkins, American Mathematical Monthly 76 #3 (March 1969), 319-320.

James reviewed by: Joseph Buffington Roberts, Mathematics Magazine 38 #1 (January 1965), 48-49; Arthur Louis Gropen, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal 4 #2 (Spring 1965), 83.

  • Kazimierz Kuratowski's Introduction to Calculus (1961): amazon link (with discussion that doing OCR on the 1923 book was not the greatest idea), PDF online

Kuratowski reviewed by: Frans Martin Djorup, Pi Mu Epsilon Journal 3 #8 (Spring 1963), 420; Raymond Charles Mjolsness, American Mathematical Monthly 71 #1 (January 1964), 111-112.

Spivak reviewed by: Graham S. Smithers, Mathematical Gazette 52 #380 (May 1968), 181-182; David Marius Bressoud, American Mathematical Monthly 120 #6 (June-July 2013), 577-580 (simultaneous review with 4 other honors or otherwise distinctive texts).