Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning Which Are Generally Called by the Terrifyin

by Silvanus Phillips Thompson

Overview

This early work on calculus is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the mathematical techniques of successive differences, relative growing, curvature of curves, and includes numerous examples and exercises. This is a fascinating work and highly recommended for anyone interested in learning calculus. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446509654
Publisher:	Rose Press
Publication date:	11/09/2010
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Silvanus P. Thompson, born in 1851, was elected to the Royal Society in 1891. He wrote numerous technical books and manuals on electricity, magnetism, dynamos, and optics, as well as several popular biographies of prominent scientists. Thompson died in 1916.

Martin Gardner, born in 1914, has written several reviews for The New York Review of Books and was a Scientific American columnist for over twenty-five years. He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Editorial Reviews

The times they are a-changing. . . .Graphics programs that share the scope and spirit of Thompson/Gardner would make a valued complement to their paper-and-pencil book.

Scientific American

The times they are a-changing. . . .Graphics programs that share the scope and spirit of Thompson/Gardner would make a valued complement to their paper-and-pencil book.

Scientific American

“Calculus Made Easy is arguably the best math teaching ever. To a non-mathematician, its simplicity and clarity reveals the mathematical genius of Newton, Leibniz, and Thompson himself. Martin Gardner deserves huge thanks for renewing this great book.” —Julian Simon, author of Population Matters

“A remarkable and user-friendly approach to the study of calculus, made even more so by Martin Gardner, the most highly acclaimed mathematical expositor of our time.” —R.L. Graham, Chief Scientist, AT&T Labs, and author of Concrete Mathematics

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