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The 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.
The 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.
Just link to the book, which is good, and save us your little puffing yourself up bit. I am sorry but I cannot sit by and watch someone belittle people who would want to learn.
edit: sorry, I am a bit high strung today. Defending tomorrow afternoon. Whatever though. the above is still true. We have an epidemic of "make those who would try hard feel stupid" and it needs to end.
>I To deliver you from the Preliminary Terrors
>The preliminary terror [..] can be abolished once for all by simply stating what is the meaning–in common-sense terms–of the two principal symbols:
(1) d, which merely means “a little bit of.” Thus dx means a little bit of x; or du means a little bit of u.
(2) ∫, which is merely a long S, and may be called (if you like) “the sum of.”
As someone who taught Calculus, how I wish every book on the subject started like that!
If I ever have to do it again, I will use this book. Wish I had known about it earlier.
The book includes a very important chapter on compound interest, which is too often glossed over in texts used today. I wrote notes to remedy that (as an extra-credit reading project for the students), and was glad to find that the book has a similar approach:
http://romankogan.net/math/A_paper_of_interest/A_Paper_of_In...
The 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.
From the book: >I To deliver you from the Preliminary Terrors >The preliminary terror [..] can be abolished once for all by simply stating what is the meaning–in common-sense terms–of the two principal symbols: (1) d, which merely means “a little bit of.” Thus dx means a little bit of x; or du means a little bit of u. (2) ∫, which is merely a long S, and may be called (if you like) “the sum of.” As someone who taught…