Calculus Made Easy
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Calculus Made Easy
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Updates the classic calculus primer.
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, modernised language and methods throughout, and an appendix of challenging and enjoyable practice problems, Calculus Made Easy has been thoroughly updated for the modern reader.
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Calculus Made Easy is celebrated as arguably the best math teaching ever, praised for its simplicity and clarity that unveils the genius of Newton, Leibniz, and Thompson. Renowned mathematical expositor Martin Gardner’s contributions have further modernised this indispensable guide, making it remarkably user-friendly and accessible.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780312185480
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 October 1998
Country: United States
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Edition: New edition
Illustration: illustrations
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 330
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.
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