Calculus Made Easy Pdf

Posted : admin | On 19-04-2021

By Murray Bourne, 25 Apr 2009

Precalculus Made Easy Free
Calculus Made Easy Pdf
Calculus Made Easy By Silvanus Thompson Pdf
Calculus Made Easy Free

OK, it looks old and dusty, but Calculus Made Easy [PDF] is an excellent book and I strongly recommend it to those of you who are struggling with calculus concepts. It's also great for teachers, to give you ideas on how to explain calculus so it doesn't confuse the hell out of everyone. He quite rightly points out that many math text book writers are more interested in impressing the reader with sophisticated calculus techniques than explaining the basic concepts.

Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics — and they are mostly clever fools — seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in. Introduction to Tensor Calculus Taha Sochi May 25, 2016 Department of Physics & Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT. Email: t.sochi@ucl.ac.uk. 1 arXiv:1603.01660v3 math.HO 23 May 2016.

One of the early pages has:

BEING A VERY-SIMPLEST INTRODUCTION TO
THOSE BEAUTIFUL METHODS OF RECKONING
WHICH ARE GENERALLY CALLED BY THE
TERRIFYING NAMES OF THE
DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS
AND THE
INTEGRAL CALCULUS.
BY
SILVANUS P. THOMPSON

In other words, this was one of the first ever 'Calculus for Dummies' books. Thompson puts great effort into explaining what is going on, rather than jumping straight into the calculations. He humbly calls himself a 'fool', but doesn't treat the reader as one.

He quotes from an 'ancient Simian proverb':

'What one fool can do another can.'

To give you an idea of how the book is written, in Chapter 1, 'To Deliver You From the Preliminary Terrors', we read:

∫ which is merely a long S, and may be called (if you like) 'the sum of.' Thus ∫dx means the sum of all the little bits of x; or ∫dt means the sum of all the little bits of t. Ordinary mathematicians call this symbol 'the integral of'.

Now any fool can see that if x is considered as made up of a lot of little bits, each of which is called dx, if you add them all up together you get the sum of all the dx's, (which is the same thing as the whole of x). The word 'integral' simply means 'the whole'.

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