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The early 1900s book “Calculus Made Easy” is a really good intro to calculus.
by nso95 8y ago
The early 1900s book “Calculus Made Easy” is a really good intro to calculus.
- gshubert17 8y agoIn a PDF on Project Gutenberg: Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
- ColinWright 8y agoSeconded. I did calculus decades before I became aware of this book, but in reading it now I think it's excellent, and very much wish I'd known it before. By contrast, I didn't find the submitted book very engaging, but I'm sure it's a matter of taste, and others will disagree.
- iamcreasy 8y agoThis book is amazing. But I'd suggest everybody to read the version edited by Martin Gardner in 1998[1]. The first version written by Thompson ignored the use of limit, and it also used terms that aren't used anymore. For example, the older book used the term 'differential coefficient' which is now known as derivatives[2]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/dp/0333772431 https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/... [2] More about the difference between old and the new book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy