Calculus Made Easy

Calculus Made Easy

by Silvanus P Thompson
Calculus Made Easy

Calculus Made Easy

by Silvanus P Thompson

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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.
A classic and simple approach to learning calculus that requires no technology or prior advanced mathematical skills. This text uses a pioneering approach to math education which is still relevant today.
The approach simplifies the process of learning a complicated subject by breaking it down to its core components, using basic examples, and building upon each component until the topic is mastered.
This book is a must have for students of calculus or those that have always wanted to learn the subject. It is also helpful to those of us who learned many years ago but could use a refresher.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789563101133
Publisher: Stanford Inversiones Spa
Publication date: 01/21/2019
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 422,443
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

SILVANUS P. THOMPSON (1851-1916) wrote several science manuals and biographies of major scientists.

MARTIN GARDNER is a regular reviewer for the New York Review of Books. He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

Prologue.- To Deliver you from the Preliminary Terrors.- On Different Degrees of Smallness.- On Relative Growings.- Simplest Cases.- Next Stage: What to do with Constants.- Sums, Differences, Products and Quotients.- Successive Differentiation.- When Time Varies.- Introducing a Useful Dodge.- Geometrical Meaning of Differentiation.- Maxima and Minima.- Curvature of Curves.- Other Useful Dodges.- On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth.- How to Deal with Sines and Cosines.- Partial Differentiation.- Integration.- Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating.- On Finding Areas by Integration.- Dodges, Pitfalls and Triumphs.- Finding Solutions.- A Little More about Curvature of Curves.- How to Find the Length of an Arc on a Curve.- Epilogue and Apologue.

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Martin Gardner is one of the great intellects produced in this country.' – Douglas Hofstadter

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