Author: John Landen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Residual Analysis
Author: John Landen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Calculus Without Hocus Pocus
Author: K. Razi Naqvi
Publisher: K. Razi Naqvi
ISBN: 8299992338
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Calculus is a subject that needs to be studied many times over, ideally with a different book in each new round. Using Ezra Pound’s analogy (in ABC of Reading), we may think of the learner as an apprentice carpenter, and of calculus as a stool or table; the learner must keep going until the piece of furniture has three legs and will stand up, or four legs and won’t tip over too easily. Most people cannot follow this plan, because life is short and the list of other demands on their time just too long. This book has been written with a view to making calculus more interesting and intelligible to those who left college, recently or a long time ago, without becoming an adept; those who are familiar with the contents of undergraduate calculus, but not altogether content with their own grasp of the central concepts; those who are aware that the structure put together by them during their apprenticeship is too wobbly, and liable to tip over when the number of independent variables is increased from one to just two. An absurd simile? Not in the opinion of a distinguished mathematician and educator (quoted verbatim in the preface), who acknowledged that the customary definition of a differential in the theory of functions of a single variable breaks down when one extends it to functions of several variables and considers double integrals. He continued: “Students are rightly baffled when they attempt to convert such an integral to polar coordinates and are told that no longer is it permissible to [apply a straightforward extension of the relevant formula for a change of variable in a single integral]. The Jacobian must be used instead, and at this point the logical structure which was built so carefully collapses entirely. If we wish to make calculus an intellectually honest subject and not a collection of convenient tricks, it is time we made a fresh start.” Calculus Without Hocus Pocus aims to elucidate those (and only those) issues that are not treated adequately in standard textbooks. It offers more cogent explanations of the conundrums and paradoxes which have been nagging the minds of students and teachers of calculus for generations. The author, who has been using calculus as a teacher and researcher for over fifty years, has tried to produce a condensed and readable book that throws light from various directions upon the difficult parts of this very technical (and somewhat unpopular) subject; to show some of the reasons why calculus has been cast in the mould in which we find it; and to recommend some minor changes in notation and nomenclature that would remove nearly all of the hocus-pocus which almost every learner of calculus has had to endure so far.
Publisher: K. Razi Naqvi
ISBN: 8299992338
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Calculus is a subject that needs to be studied many times over, ideally with a different book in each new round. Using Ezra Pound’s analogy (in ABC of Reading), we may think of the learner as an apprentice carpenter, and of calculus as a stool or table; the learner must keep going until the piece of furniture has three legs and will stand up, or four legs and won’t tip over too easily. Most people cannot follow this plan, because life is short and the list of other demands on their time just too long. This book has been written with a view to making calculus more interesting and intelligible to those who left college, recently or a long time ago, without becoming an adept; those who are familiar with the contents of undergraduate calculus, but not altogether content with their own grasp of the central concepts; those who are aware that the structure put together by them during their apprenticeship is too wobbly, and liable to tip over when the number of independent variables is increased from one to just two. An absurd simile? Not in the opinion of a distinguished mathematician and educator (quoted verbatim in the preface), who acknowledged that the customary definition of a differential in the theory of functions of a single variable breaks down when one extends it to functions of several variables and considers double integrals. He continued: “Students are rightly baffled when they attempt to convert such an integral to polar coordinates and are told that no longer is it permissible to [apply a straightforward extension of the relevant formula for a change of variable in a single integral]. The Jacobian must be used instead, and at this point the logical structure which was built so carefully collapses entirely. If we wish to make calculus an intellectually honest subject and not a collection of convenient tricks, it is time we made a fresh start.” Calculus Without Hocus Pocus aims to elucidate those (and only those) issues that are not treated adequately in standard textbooks. It offers more cogent explanations of the conundrums and paradoxes which have been nagging the minds of students and teachers of calculus for generations. The author, who has been using calculus as a teacher and researcher for over fifty years, has tried to produce a condensed and readable book that throws light from various directions upon the difficult parts of this very technical (and somewhat unpopular) subject; to show some of the reasons why calculus has been cast in the mould in which we find it; and to recommend some minor changes in notation and nomenclature that would remove nearly all of the hocus-pocus which almost every learner of calculus has had to endure so far.
A Historian Looks Back
Author: Judith V. Grabiner
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 0883855720
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
An inspiring collection of a historian's work on the history of mathematics.
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 0883855720
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
An inspiring collection of a historian's work on the history of mathematics.
The Residual Analysis; a New Branch of the Algebraic Art, of Very Extensive Use, Both in Pure Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy. Book 1. By John Landen
Author: John Landen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700-1800
Author: Niccol- Guicciardini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book examines how calculus developed in Britain during the century following Newton.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book examines how calculus developed in Britain during the century following Newton.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Society
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Bibliotheca Chemico-mathematica
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description