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The beauty of Calculus can only be revealed to young recruits by Herb Gross' videos and Spivak's Calculus. If those don't tickle your brain, nothing will.
by molteanu 7y ago
The beauty of Calculus can only be revealed to young recruits by Herb Gross' videos and Spivak's Calculus. If those don't tickle your brain, nothing will.
- edge17 7y agolink? not sure what you're referring to
- rofo1 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRWDuduuSw&list=PL3B08AE665AB9002A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRWDuduuSw&list=PL3B08AE665... There are many, many ways to study calculus, so take this as a preference. For example, this wouldn't be my first choice. In general, I find the "Definition. Axiom. Theorem." approach very dry and just doesn't fit reality. Nobody ever discovered mathematics like this. One of the best books I've read is Gausses "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae" rather than any modern Theory of Numbers book. I've had more insight in sums manipulations (and various little tricks, some of them not even justified in modern mathematics) from Euler's letters than any other book on this subject. I don't know what happened in the meantime. It sure doesn't look like 18/19 century books were so dry like the ones today.
- learn_awesome 7y agoThanks for sharing both those things. We've added these to our Calculus topic here: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn-awesome/blob/master/calculus.md https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn-awesome/blob/master/c...
- artiste 7y agoI also found 3Blue1Brown's (Grant Sanderson) YouTube series "Essence of Calculus" quite enjoyable.
- less_penguiny 7y ago"Spivak's Calculus" is a reference to the book "Calculus" by Michael Spivak. https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/0914098918 https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-4th-Michael-Spivak/dp/091409... Many consider the book's presentation of the topic utterly beautiful, bordering even on the spiritual.