Calculus Made Easy (1910)
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Calculus Made Easy (1910)
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Re: Calculus Made Easy (1910)
#2Isn't this public domain by now?
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1910)
#3Isn't this public domain by now?
From the website, yes it is, and exists as a pdf on project guttenberg. This is just relayed-out.
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Re: Calculus Made Easy (1910)
#4Isn't this public domain by now?
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Re: Calculus Made Easy (1910)
#5Sorry for the interruption; here is a thread (with 188 comments) about this book from a year back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14161876
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1910)
#6> Obviously 1 minute is a very small quantity of time compared with a whole week. Indeed, our forefathers considered it small as compared with an hour, and called it “one minùte,” meaning a minute fraction–namely one sixtieth–of an hour. When they came to require still smaller subdivisions of time, they divided each minute into 60 still smaller parts, which, in Queen Elizabeth's days, they called “second minùtes” (i.e.: small quantities of the second order of minuteness). Nowadays we call these small quantities of the second order of smallness “seconds.” But few people know why they are so called.
Learned something already!
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#7Fun fact, the author Sylvanus P. Thompson was also one of the pioneers of what's now known as transcranial magnetic stimulation. The figure from the following article shows "Sylvanus P. Thompson eliciting retinal light flashes with a primitive magnetic stimulator, 1910."
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/eppp-archive/100/201/300/cdn_medical_a...
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1910)
#8Although the calculus concepts from 1910 may still be relevant, quotes like these make the book outputting -- "The preliminary terror, which chokes off most fifth-form boys from even attempting to learn how to calculate..." Ugh!
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1910)
#9The beginning calculus book for me is Gilbert Strang's Calculus.
https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/Strang/Edited/Calculus...
Calculus Made Easy seems too dumbed down to me.
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1910)
#10The beginning calculus book for me is Gilbert Strang's Calculus. https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/Strang/Edited/Calculus... Calculus Made Easy seems too dumbed down to me.
Did you read it? The book was aimed at school children who would have taken the then British matriculation. I don't think they are the target audience for Strang's book.