i know this is supposed to be a beginner textbook, but his discussion of infinitesimal geometry uses an awful amount of Scheme Theory to justify.
Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
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Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#192these figures are so exquisite and the typography lazily guides me through
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Maybe a more apt term would be polymath porno.
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#194That PDF is just a bunch of scanned images of the book. It's large and cumbersome in many readers. There is a much better PDF at Project Gutenberg [1]. The Gutenberg PDF is only 1.9 MB, compared to 12 MB for the scanned image PDF. The Gutenberg page for this book [2] also has a link to the LaTeX source for the PDF. [1] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf [2] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
thanks for the Gutenberg link.
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#195In Italy there is a "similar" (in the sense that it manages to explain calculus in a friendly and easy manner) book, that has been re-edited and re-published since - I believe - 1929 or so:
https://books.google.it/books?id=oHPmx_v1H6QC&pg=PP5&hl=it&s...
the original is French, the Author Gustave Bessiere was an engineer, mathematician and inventor:
https://books.google.it/books/about/Le_calcul_intégral_facil...
I don't think they are (yet) copyright free, though.
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#196I'm embarassed somewhat to say this, but over the past few weeks I've been taking the courses on Khan Academy on mathematics. I'm nearly 30. and I'm not talking about brushing up on my linear algebra, that comes later, I'm talking high school level mathematics, stuff that I've largely forgotten or didn't "get" first time round. I've seen these "machine learning for hackers!" articles who try to dish out a bit of math…
I'm almost 34 and when I watch Calculus One videos on coursera, I sometimes get stuck when the guy easily expands (a + b)² or folds it back. We used to to this at math class at school and then probably in university, but I haven't been doing anything like this since then (talking about importance of math for programmers!).
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#197In a similar vein: "Probability Through Problems": https://archive.org/details/springer_10.1007-978-0-387-21659... I love this book. What's the best way to learn a mathematical field? To discover it yourself, piece by piece! I wish this were a series.
It is a series: http://link.springer.com/search?facet-series=%22714%22&facet... .
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks so much for the kind words. I vividly remember cramming for a test my freshman year of college, not having things click, and the final Aha! when a semester of pain disappeared with a few visualizations. The contrast between how most classes presented the material and what actually worked for me was jarring, and I had to share what helped. I hope other people share what works for them, in any format they can.
I regularly direct some of my students to your website, so thank you for your work!
Just seeing this now -- thanks for the recommendation!
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#199I'm embarassed somewhat to say this, but over the past few weeks I've been taking the courses on Khan Academy on mathematics. I'm nearly 30. and I'm not talking about brushing up on my linear algebra, that comes later, I'm talking high school level mathematics, stuff that I've largely forgotten or didn't "get" first time round. I've seen these "machine learning for hackers!" articles who try to dish out a bit of math…
I'm almost 34 and when I watch Calculus One videos on coursera, I sometimes get stuck when the guy easily expands (a + b)² or folds it back. We used to to this at math class at school and then probably in university, but I haven't been doing anything like this since then (talking about importance of math for programmers!).
Very much this. My son is taking his first course in HS Algebra. Fortunately, he generally gets it, but every now and then asks me for help in understanding a concept since his textbook is awful. I've found myself having to Google topics that I know I mastered decades ago. It does come back, but sometimes it takes a bit of thinking.