I believe this was Feynman's favorite book on calculus.
Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
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Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#12That 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
And here's the github hosted version because gutenberg seems to be freaking out right now:
https://github.com/nadvornix/calculus-made-easy/blob/master/...
Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#13Summer of 1980, going into my senior year in high school, I mentioned I'd be taking Calculus next year to a co-worker a couple years older than I. He said he had the best book in the world on Calculus, and he loaned me his copy of Silvanus P Thompson's Calculus made easy. I thoroughly enjoyed that book, benefited from its intuitive explanations, and forever appreciated his recommendation.
If I may similarly influence anyone here, for themselves or someone they know, to read Calculus made easy to supplement their calculus coursework, I will be happy to have paid the favor forward in some small way.
By the way, Kalid Azad may be our modern day Silvanus P Thompson. And he has better tools[1], which he wields masterfully, than just pen and paper. Recommended too.
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#14I assigned this in an Honors Calc II class I taught at a state university.
The main text was Stewart (decided at the department level), but I was teaching the Honors section which provided a good opportunity for me to ask for something extra. I had my students read this book alongside Stewart, and write weekly short essays comparing the two approaches. Many of the students turned in some quite good writing.
This is an outstanding book.
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#15It's crazy the kids have to pay hundreds of dollars for the horrible books the colleges require when brilliant things like this can be had for free...
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#16Since no one else has mentioned it, there is an updated edition available in print, with updates by Martin Gardener.
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#17Heavens - I'd have never guessed titles like '~ Made Easy' were as old as that. I don't know why exactly, it just sounds modern.
1914 is pretty modern.
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#18This is an incredible book. I'm a visual thinker, and while this book lacks all the glossy pages of illustration found in a modern Calculus textbook, the writing style helps develop that visual intuition. In the same vein of concise Calculus books, Serge Lang's Short Calculus is also great (if you need a refresher, or if you're just starting out).
https://www.amazon.com/Short-Calculus-Original-Undergraduate...
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#19Re: Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
#20Heavens - I'd have never guessed titles like '~ Made Easy' were as old as that. I don't know why exactly, it just sounds modern.
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