Calculus Made Easy - Couverture souple

Thompson, Silvanus P

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781395624 ISBN 13 : 9781781395622

Editeur : Benediction Classics, 2015

Synopsis

A knowledge of calculus renders straightforward many problems in mathematics, physics and engineering. Thompson's book renders calculus straightforward. Ideal for anyone who has suffered rather than enjoyed calculus. This text, with numerous worked examples, will teach you to understand calculus and also how to solve typical exam questions.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks. Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics and they are mostly clever fools|seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way. Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can. The word "integral" simply means “the whole”. If you think of the duration of time for one hour, you may (if you like) think of it as cut up into 3600 little bits called seconds. The whole of the 3600 little bits added up together make one hour. When you see an expression that begins with this terrifying symbol, you will henceforth know that it is put there merely to give you instructions that you are now to perform the operation (if you can) of totalling up all the little bits that are indicated by the symbols that follow. That's all.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book is a reprint of Silvanus P. Thompson's classic calculus textbook. I'm reprinting it here for my own student's ease of use but this century old classic belongs on the shelf of any math student. It is the most approachable calculus introduction I've seen and was written in the days way before calculators and computers. As a result, the sample problems presented are of the type that can be completed by hand with no technology required. This simple approach combined with an author with a good sense of humor makes this book a good starting point or quick reference book for anyone interested in learning calculus. - Dr. Mike Hollis

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Benediction Classics
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781395624
• ISBN 13: 9781781395622
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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