Calculus Made Easy : Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning Which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus

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Overview

Calculus Made Easy has long been the most popular calculus primer, and this major revision of the classic math text makes the subject at hand still more comprehensible to readers of all levels. With a new introduction, three new chapters, modernized language and methods throughout, and an appendix of challenging and enjoyable practice problems, Calculus Made Easy has been thoroughly updated for the modern reader.

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Sylvanus Thompson's Calculus Made Easy is arguably the best math teaching ever. To a non-mathematician, its simplicity and clarity reveals the mathematical genius of Newton, Leibniz, and Thompson himself. Martin Gardner deserves huge thanks for renewing this great book.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312185480
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 10/15/1998
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 120,966
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.58 (h) x 1.23 (d)

Meet the Author

Silvanus P. Thompson, born in 1851, was elected to the Royal Society in 1891. He wrote numerous technical books and manuals on electricity, magnetism, dynamos, and optics, as well as several popular biographies of prominent scientists. Thompson died in 1916.

Martin Gardner, born in 1914, has written several reviews for The New York Review of Books and was a Scientific American columnist for over twenty-five years. He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 1998 Edition
Preliminary Chapters by Martin Gardner
1. What is a Function?
2. What is a Limit?
3. What is a Derivative?

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson
Publisher's Note on the Third Edition
Prologue
1. To Deliver Your from the Preliminary Terrors
2. On Different Degrees of Smallness
3. On Relative Growings
4. Simplest Cases
5. Next Stage. What to Do with Constants
6. Sums, Differences, Products, and Quotients
7. Successive Differentiation
8. When Time Varies
9. Introducing a Useful Dodge
10. Geometrical Meaning of Differentiation
11. Maxima and Minima
12. Curvature of Curves
13. Partial Fractions and Inverse Functions
14. On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth
15. How to deal with Sines and Cosines
16. Partial Differentiation
17. Integration
18. Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating
19. On Finding Areas by Integrating
20. Dodges, Pitfalls, and Triumphs
21. Finding Solutions
22. A Little More about Curvature of Curves
23. How to Find the Length of an Arc on a Curve
Table of Standards

Epilogue and Apologue
Answers to Exercises
Appendix: Some Recreational Problems Relating to Calculus, by Martin Gardner
Index
About the Authors

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  • Posted September 29, 2011

    Paperback Version Only

    As the publisher of this text I can assure you that there are no Ebook/ Nook versions of this book available from the publisher. Negative reviews appear to be based upon a third party offering this up as an ebook. I'm not sure how they are pulling that off because the nature of this text makes it virtually impossible to translate into ebook format. I suspect that there is a third party vendor automatically converting (clearly without reading the converted version first) and then offering it up for sale. If you see it listed as an ebook/ nook, please avoid that offering.

    The print copy of this book is a reprint of the classic calculus text by Silvanus Thompson that was printed for a specific course requirement and offered up to the public here. It offers up a helpful quick course in calculus that many students find useful. It was my first introduction to the subject and I still refer back to it regularly.

    Again, I apologize for someone offering up an ebook/ nook version of this in my name. I can assure you they do not have an affiliation with my company. I am trying to get to the bottom of it but not having much luck.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted July 16, 2011

    Fraud book

    There is no text, always try the sample. Wish could refund 10 seconds, from first opened. Nook says no refund allowed. Wtv

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 30, 2005

    I was lost for 4 semester but now understand

    I made it through all my calculus classes as an engineering major, but honestly never understood any of the theory behind what I was doing. Now, as a masters student, I need to understand the concepts of calculus. I am not joking when I say that I learned far more from reading this book than I did in 4 semesters of college calc.

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 1, 2003

    Gardner's Update is Superb!

    This update of a classic is a must for those seeking an authoritative source of introductory calculus. The authors have brought only the critical elements to their discussion and exercises. Readers will find this a wonderful introduction or review to the basic principles of calculus. Well done!

    1 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 8, 2012

    DO NOT BUY THIS!!! IT IS NOT THE BOOK.

    makes me really angry that B&N allows this kind of behavior on their nook book offerings. I have no idea how this book was allowed in the nook store. the publisher has nothing to do with this and no surprise. when you open it there are just control characters and no equations, I wound up buying the hard copy. this is a total waste of money and I am sorry I did not read the reviews before buying or I would have been aware that it was a hoax put up not by the publisher but by someone else who is now making money off of it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 5, 2012

    Poor type,

    Lots of typos, very hard to read

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  • Posted February 6, 2012

    Very helpful

    I have just started reading the book, but so far it provides helpful chapters covering derivatives and so much more for calculus. It also has many examples with the answers so you can check your work.

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  • Posted January 25, 2012

    Required for class but a good read

    Our professor required this book (the MJ Hollis & Co version, although I suspect they're all the same). It is better than some of the dense textbooks that I'm used to but it is still difficult material to grasp. It is rather brief and too the point though. Sometimes a bit too brief. I often found myself going back to review previous chapters to remind myself of how the author got to a certain point and so on.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 14, 2012

    Worse book ever

    Lot of mistake and mistype. Special characters just represented by a scare. Don't waste your money.

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  • Posted March 21, 2010

    An oldy but a goody.

    This was very useful to one well equipped in algebra. They say those who have difficulty with calculus have a hard time with algebra. This author made sure to include plenty of examples. I recommend this book.

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