Calculus Made Easy
11:15 PM
Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks.
By far the best opening line for a math text ever written. Now released from copyright restrictions you can download a copy, visit the scribd.com version, or read it here.
I think I'm going to use this as the text for my High School Calculus class next year and perhaps as a supplemental text for my AP Calculus students.
Thanks to Denise for the tip. ;-)
Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson
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To make Calculus easier (both for the students to understand and me to teach), I love Professor E. McSquared's Calculus Primer. http://www.math.sjsu.edu/~swann/mcsqrd.html
ReplyDeleteSo much fun, someone needs to animate it. :-)
University have this strange habit of finding themselves enrolled in courses without the pre-requisite. In my daughter's case, the pre-requisite she didn't have was calculus. Would have been good to have a text.
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