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He did elsewhere suggest teaching calculus by Big O notation: http://www.ams.org/notices/199806/commentary.pdf http://www.ams.org/notices/199806/commentary.pdf
by simonbyrne 9y ago
He did elsewhere suggest teaching calculus by Big O notation:
http://www.ams.org/notices/199806/commentary.pdf http://www.ams.org/notices/199806/commentary.pdf
I would be excited to see someone try that.
- bordercases 9y agoUPenn's Calculus I+II courses with Robert Ghrist uses this sort of notation right at the beginning (it takes the Talyor Polynomial as the natural starting point, rather than derivatives, with knocking off terms of the summation involves factoring them out into the O-notation block).
- jonsen 9y agoI found his original and not abbreviated version https://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~knuth/calc https://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~knuth/calc Now, how do I TeXify it on an iPad?
- svat 9y agoI've TeXed it a while ago; scroll down here: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/big-o-notation-a-couple-of-sources/ https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/big-o-notation-a...