Calculus Made Easy -- Paperback

Thompson, S.P./ Gardner, Martin

Palgrave Macmillan（1999/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 336 p.
• 商品コード 9780333772430
• DDC分類 515

基本説明

'For more than half a century, Martin Gardner has been the single brightest beacon defending rationality and good science'. -Stephen Jay Gould.

Full Description

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.

Contents

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.