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IIRC this the book Richard Feynman said he checked out of the library and learned calculus from. Also, Feynman made comments similar to those in the Prologue.
by c517402 9y ago
IIRC this the book Richard Feynman said he checked out of the library and learned calculus from. Also, Feynman made comments similar to those in the Prologue.
- ramblerman 9y agono that was Calculus for the practical man http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7398477-calculus-for-the-practical-man http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7398477-calculus-for-the-...
- madrik 9y agoFeynman 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'.
- ramblerman 9y agoThanks for the correction, I didn't know that
- amai 9y agoI thought the book Feynman mentioned was Woods: Advanced Calculus: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/17dq5l/is_there_a_modern_day_equivalent_to_advanced/ https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/17dq5l/is_there_a_mod...
- metaphor 9y agoIIRC, Feynman mentioned Woods in the context of differentiation under the integral sign, whereas J.E. Thompson was in the context of learning Calculus as a kid.