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Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest advanced books on integral calculation?

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Along a similar line, the only book that I've found that has goes through a careful derivation of the divergence theorem using Lebesgue integration is, "A Concise Introduction to the Theory of Integration," Second Edition by Daniel W. Stroock. I prefer this one to his later book, "Essentials of Integration Theory for Analysis."

Does anyone else have a good reference or book on the topic?

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest advanced books on integral calculation?

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Since you are already doing this, can you suggest some good books you have be using for beginners. ?

The AP Calculus material on Khan Academy is excellent. One thing they could add however is more material on the integration of hyperbolic functions (which isn't part of the core AP material).

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest advanced books on integral calculation?

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As practical advice (not addressing your enjoyment), learn how to use a CAS effectively. That will have a ton more bang for the buck in studying physics than being able to occasionally impress yourself with a Feynman trick or obscure application of the King property.

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest advanced books on integral calculation?

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post #11

Along a similar line, the only book that I've found that has goes through a careful derivation of the divergence theorem using Lebesgue integration is, "A Concise Introduction to the Theory of Integration," Second Edition by Daniel W. Stroock. I prefer this one to his later book, "Essentials of Integration Theory for Analysis." Does anyone else have a good reference or book on the topic?

This is an amazing book and I'm so suprised to see someone else knows about it. However , who cares about the Lebesgue integral? The only thing its good for is integrating pathological functions like the rationals, the indicator of the Cantor set, and fractals. Riemann integration is just fine and I'm not sure what all the fuss is about the Lebesgue Integral. Sure expectation of a random variable is a Lebesgue integral, but most of the time you have a density anyways and you can use the Riemann Integral.

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest advanced books on integral calculation?

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post #11

Along a similar line, the only book that I've found that has goes through a careful derivation of the divergence theorem using Lebesgue integration is, "A Concise Introduction to the Theory of Integration," Second Edition by Daniel W. Stroock. I prefer this one to his later book, "Essentials of Integration Theory for Analysis." Does anyone else have a good reference or book on the topic?

Also when you talk about the divergence theorem using Lebesuge integration, you're tending into the territory of Geometric Measure Theory which is very deep and im not sure why anyone would do this unless they were a working mathematician and had a practical need for it, like say they were studying geometric analysis (which only a small group of people in the world do).

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest advanced books on integral calculation?

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I could suggest the following Inside Interesting Integrals, by Nahin. This contains integrals with often arithmetic inspiration. Imagine things like, lots of special values of the zeta function or partial sums of harmonic numbers and that sort of thing. Irresistible Integrals, by Boros and Moll. This is inspired by their work to prove all of the integrals in the enormous book of Gradshteyn and Ryzhik, whose reference…

Also:

(Almost) Impossible Integrals, Sums, and Series - Cornel Ioan Vălean

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest advanced books on integral calculation?

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Learn complex analysis contour integrals! There super fun for doing physics integrals. I'm not sure if these are too basic for what your asking about or not, but thought I'd mention them. Junjiro Noguchi's Introduction to Complex Analysis is a book recommended from herehttps://math.stackexchange.com/questions/438468/what-is-the-...

Re: Ask HN: Can you suggest advanced books on integral calculation?

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I remember study guides for the first actuarial exam give tricks to calculate repeated integrals fast. There's also those CRC manuals filled with solutions to integrals that show the steps.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_integrals
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