Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning Which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential calc

Silvanus P. Thompson/ Martin Gardner

ISBN 10: 0312185480 / ISBN 13: 9780312185480

Editore: St Martins Pr, 1998

revised subsequent edition. 330 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock. Codice articolo 0312185480

Riassunto:

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, modernized language and methods throughout, and an appendix of challenging and enjoyable practice problems, Calculus Made Easy has been thoroughly updated for the modern reader.

Informazioni sull'autore:

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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Titolo: Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest ...
Casa editrice: St Martins Pr
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Brand New