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Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

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Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

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Post by ramblerman »

madrik wrote: post #86
ramblerman wrote: post #58

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no that was Calculus for the practical man http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7398477-calculus-for-the-...

Feynman had read both books. He mentioned the prefatory quote from 'Calculus Made Easy' in an interview given to Omni Magazine in 1979: "... I had a calculus book once that said, 'What one fool can do, another can'..." I have this in Chapter 9: 'The Smartest Man in the World' in Feynman's book 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out'.

Thanks for the correction, I didn't know that

Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

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Post by TsukiZombina »

ziikutv wrote: post #67
theCricketer wrote: post #51

MIT recorded a set of Calculus video courses back in 1970s that they have since made publicly available. It is taught by a lecturer named Herbert Gross. His style of lecturing is clear, he states why things are defined the way they are and derives everything from first principles. There is an unusual mix of rigor and focus on building understanding - where everything comes from. It also taught me that math is about r…

So a while back, I said I am going to start writing "Colloquial books" about all of the courses I took as I relearn all of the stuff in my and other Engineering Branches (minus the grade-gun pointed at my head). One of the first courses are of course Calculus. I skimmed through some of these video lectures, I wonder if I even should write books for this. Or simply href. Thank you for the share. Will be of great help…

I thought the same as you!

Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

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Post by OJFord »

douche wrote: post #46
OJFord wrote: post #27

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It's all relative. Obviously I mean that it sounds vastly more recent than 1914 to my ear. And anyway, I confess I don't know the industry at all, but I doubt anyone would talk about 1914 as representing 'modern publishing'.

It's less than a decade from the cutoff date after which books stopped entering the public domain, so by Project Gutenberg standards, it is pretty modern.

Okay, fantastic, arguably a poor choice of word then. I think it's pretty obvious what I mean, and whether or not 1914 qualifies as 'modern' doesn't affect it in the slightest...

Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

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Post by arcticfox »

OJFord wrote: post #93
douche wrote: post #46

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It's less than a decade from the cutoff date after which books stopped entering the public domain, so by Project Gutenberg standards, it is pretty modern.

Okay, fantastic, arguably a poor choice of word then. I think it's pretty obvious what I mean, and whether or not 1914 qualifies as 'modern' doesn't affect it in the slightest...

Not a poor choice of words at all, modern must be understood in context and you used it correctly. It would be impossible to ever use the word without a debate on definition otherwise. "How do I build a modern web app? .. Here, I found some relevant resources on vacuum tubes!"

Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

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Post by hellofunk »

jacobolus wrote: post #77
tedd4u wrote: post #68

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Thanks for sharing this - watched the intro lecture and I'm hooked! This is my idea of "Netflix & chill"

Note that “Netflix and chill” is a euphemism for casual sex. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=netflix%20and...

How do you know that's not what he meant?

Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]

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Post by vixen99 »

Reading it as a kid I wasn't sure I trusted the author - Silvanus P. Thompson FRS ('FRS' - which I knew to be something rather prestigious) when he wrote in the prologue "Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I've had to unteach myself the difficulties . . . What one fool can do, another can."
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