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I came across-Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Thompson,on someones twitter feed. Published in 1910 and far less scary and far more interesting to read than a lot
by anonymous_i 8y ago
I came across-Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Thompson,on someones twitter feed. Published in 1910 and far less scary and far more interesting to read than a lot of math text books.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf
- FranzFerdiNaN 8y agoThis should be your first calculus book if you are learning from scratch. Much better than those 1000+ page behemoths colleges use.
- claudiawerner 8y agoSimilarly, Stroud's "Engineering Mathematics" takes you right from addition all the way up to Fourier transforms... a fantatsic book.
- ajot 8y agoThere is also a web goodlooking version, discussed previously in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18250034 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18250034
- Cheyana 8y ago“Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks.” I really wish technical books were still written like this. Though if Thompson posted this on HN as a comment he probably would have been downvoted.