Book : Calculus Made Easy - Thompson, Silvanus P.

-Titulo Original : Calculus Made Easy

-Fabricante :

St. Martins Press

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From the Publisher Praise for Martin Gardners New Edition of Calculus Made Easy: Martrin Gardner is one of the greatest intellects produced in this country in this century. --Douglas Hofstadter Sylvanus Thompsons 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 original user-friendly approach to the study of calculus, made even more so by Martin Gardner, the most highly acclaimed mathematical expositor of out time. --R.L. Graham, Chief Scientist, AT&T Labs, and author of Concrete Mathematics Before the epsilons and deltas of a college course taught by an eminent mathematician, I learned the elements of calculus from S.P. Thompsons classic work accessible to a new generation of people thirsty for mathematics. --George W. Clark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Praise for Martin Gardner For more than half a century, Martin Gardner has been the single brightest beacon defending rationality and good science...He is one of the most brilliant men and gracious writers I have known. --Stephen Jay Gould Martin Gardners contribution to contemporary culture is unique. --Noam Chomsky Martin Gardner is one of the most versatile men of the century. --Raymond Smullyan Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner has long been the most popular calculus primer. This major revision of the classic math text makes the subject at hand still more comprehensible to readers of all levels. With a new introduction, three new chapters, modernized language and methods throughout, and an appendix of challenging and enjoyable practice problems, Calculus Made Easy has been thoroughly updated for the modern reader. From Scientific American Equal-opportunity reviewers, we welcome a book on behalf of the continuum! It is for the mathematically eager who know some algebra. The first edition appeared anonymously in 1910 in England, and overall a million copies have been sold. In fact, most talk of continuum and its infinities is suppressed; the eye is nicely fixed on little bits of x, called dx, their differences and sums among all kinds of functions, their geometric meaning, and what they can do for you--a lot. Martin Gardner, himself an American mathematical landmark, says, This is the leanest and liveliest introduction to calculus ever written, and, taken with his own present augmentation, three whole chapters and more, including infinite series and some neat problems, he is quite right. The times they are a-changing, and we admit we are not current in computer resources. Maybe little bits of x ought to--or have been--placed on the screen in a serious pedagogic structure that students can manipulate. Graphics programs that share the scope and spirit of Thompson/Gardner would make a valued complement to their paper-and-pencil book. Review “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 From the Inside Flap In perhaps the most important popular math publications of the decade, this classic calculus primer has been transformed into a modern masterpiece that explains the timeless concepts of calculus in a contemporary and user-friendly voice. Martin Gardner, The Mathematical Games columnist for Scientific American for over a quarter of a centu