Larry Gonick, master cartoonist, former Harvard instructor, and creator of the New York Times bestselling, Harvey Award-winning Cartoon Guide series now does for calculus what he previously did for science and history: making a complex subject comprehensible, fascinating, and fun through witty text
The cartoon guide to calculus
โ Scribed by Gonick, Larry; Gonick, Larry
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 256
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Uses cartoons to discuss calculus, covering the basic ideas behind the field, functions, derivatives, integrals, and related topics.
โฆ Table of Contents
Initial conditions --
Speed, velocity, change --
Meet the functions --
Limits --
The derivative --
Chain, chain, chain --
Using derivatives, part 1 : related rates --
Using derivatives, part 2 : optimization --
Acting locally --
The mean value theorem --
Introducing integration --
Antiderivatives --
The definite integral --
Fundamentally --
Shape-shifting integrals --
Using integrals --
What's next?
โฆ Subjects
Calculus -- Caricatures and cartoons;Calculus -- Humor;Calculus;Calculus -- Caricatures and cartoons;Calculus -- Humor
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