Calculus Made Easy

Calculus Made Easy is a book on infinitesimal calculus, initially published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson. It is considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject. The original text continues to be available as of 2023 from Murine Publication.

With its epsilon-delta definition, Calculus Made Easy does not use limits. Instead, it uses a way to get close (to any degree of accuracy) to the correct answer based on Leibniz's ideas about infinitesimals. Modern nonstandard analysis and smooth infinitesimal analysis are now formally supporting it.

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Calculus Made Easy

Calculus Made Easy is a book on infinitesimal calculus, initially published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson. It is considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject. The original text continues to be available as of 2023 from Murine Publication.

With its epsilon-delta definition, Calculus Made Easy does not use limits. Instead, it uses a way to get close (to any degree of accuracy) to the correct answer based on Leibniz's ideas about infinitesimals. Modern nonstandard analysis and smooth infinitesimal analysis are now formally supporting it.

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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 is a book on infinitesimal calculus, initially published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson. It is considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject. The original text continues to be available as of 2023 from Murine Publication.

With its epsilon-delta definition, Calculus Made Easy does not use limits. Instead, it uses a way to get close (to any degree of accuracy) to the correct answer based on Leibniz's ideas about infinitesimals. Modern nonstandard analysis and smooth infinitesimal analysis are now formally supporting it.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781957990705
Publisher: Bigfontbooks
Publication date: 10/26/2023
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(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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