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Calculus - A Liberal Art
โ Scribed by W. Priestley
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 420
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Presenting mathematics as forming a natural bridge between the humanities and the sciences, this book makes calculus accessible to those in the liberal arts. Much of the necessary geometry and algebra are exposed through historical development, and a section on the development of calculus offers ins
Presenting mathematics as forming a natural bridge between the humanities and the sciences, this book makes calculus accessible to those in the liberal arts. Much of the necessary geometry and algebra are exposed through historical development, and a section on the development of calculus offers ins
<p>How THIS BOOK DIFFERS This book is about the calculus. What distinguishes it, however, from other books is that it uses the pocket calculator to illustrate the theory. A computation that requires hours of labor when done by hand with tables is quite inappropriate as an example or exercise in a be
Conventional calculus is too hard and too complex. Students are forced to learn too many theorems and proofs. In Free Calculus, the author suggests a direct approach to the two fundamental concepts of calculus -- differentiation and integration -- using two inequalities. Regular calculus is condense