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Calculus Made Easy

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Calculus Made Easy has been a classic introduction to the subject ever since it was first published by Silvanus P.Thompson in 1910. In the first major revision of the text since 1946, Martin Gardner - the 'Mathematical Games' columnist for Scientific American and author of over 50 books and innumerable articles - has thoroughly updated the text to reflect recent developments in method and terminology, written an extensive preface and three new chapters, and added more than 20 recreational problems for practice and enjoyment. He has transformed this classic primer into a modern masterpiece that explains the timeless concepts of calculus in a contemporary and user-friendly voice. Zusammenfassung Calculus Made Easy has been a classic introduction to the subject ever since it was first published by Silvanus P.Thompson in 1910.In the first major revision of the text since 1946, Martin Gardner - the 'Mathematical Games' columnist for Scientific American and author of over 50 books and innumerable articles - has thoroughly updated the text to reflect recent developments in method and terminology, written an extensive preface and three new chapters, and added more than 20 recreational problems for practice and enjoyment. He has transformed this classic primer into a modern masterpiece that explains the timeless concepts of calculus in a contemporary and user-friendly voice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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Authors Martin Gardner, S.P. Thompson, S.p. Gardner Thompson, Silvanus P Thompson, Silvanus P. Thompson
Publisher Macmillan
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 22.03.1999
 
EAN 9780333772430
ISBN 978-0-333-77243-0
No. of pages 336
Series Print on demand
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology

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