Much Ado About Calculus: A Modern Treatment with Applications Prepared for Use with the Computer

by R.L. Wilson

Overview

The calculus has been one of the areas of mathematics with a large number of significant applications since its formal development in the seventeenth century. With the recent development of the digital computer, the range of applications of mathematics, including the calculus, has increased greatly and now includes many disciplines that were formerly thought to be non­ quantitative. Some of the more traditional applications have been altered, by the presence of a computer, to an extent such that many problems hitherto felt to be intractable are now solvable. This book has been written as a reaction to events that have altered the applications of the calculus. The use of the computer is made possible at an early point, although the extent to which the computer is used in the course is subject to the decision of the instructor. Some less traditional applications are included in order to provide some insight into the breadth of problems that are now susceptible to mathematical solution. The Stieltjes integral is introduced to provide for easier transition from the stated problem to its mathematical formulation, and also to permit the use of functions like step functions in later courses (such as statistics) with relative ease. The course is designed to include all the background material ordinarily associa­ ted with the first course in the calculus, but it is also designed with the user in mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461596462
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	12/27/2012
Series:	Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
Pages:	788
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

I Prologue.- II Integration.- III More About Integrals.- IV Differentiation.- V The Interrelation of Intergration and Differentiation.- VI Techniques of Differentiation and Integration.- VII Limits and Related Topics.- VIII Converting Data to Functions.- IX Infinite Series.- X Numerical Methods.- XI Differential Equations.- XII Epilogue.- Appendix A Trigonometry.- Appendix B Analytic Geometry.- B.1 Introduction.- B.2 Lines.- B.3 Circles.- B.4 The Conic Sections.- B.5 More Complicated Curves.- B.6 Polar Coordinates.- B.7 Some Common Curves in Polar Coordinates.- B.8 Rotation of Axes.- Appendix C Tables.- Table 1a Trigonometric Functions (Radian measure).- Table 1b Trigonometric Functions (Degrees).- Table 2 Exponentials and Logarithms.- Table 3 Gamma Functions.- Appendix D FORTRAN Language.- D.1 Introduction.- D.2 Arithmetic Statements.- D.3 Control Statements.- D.4 Input/Output Statements.- D.5 Subscripts.- D.6 Do Loops.- D.7 Function Statements.- D.8 Summary.- Appendix E BASIC Language.- E.1 Introduction.- E.2 Arithmetic Statements.- E.3 Control Statements.- E.4 Input/Output Statements.- E.5 Subscripts.- E.6 For-Next Loops.- E.7 Function Statements.- E.8 Summary.- Answers to Selected Exercises.