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The idea of presenting calculus visually is certainly a good one, but this is useless for anyone other than the author. The point of illustrations is to enhance
by DTE 15y ago
The idea of presenting calculus visually is certainly a good one, but this is useless for anyone other than the author. The point of illustrations is to enhance the material and this is just plain unreadable.
Here is an interesting project that is far more successful at math illustration and shows some promise:
http://worrydream.com/KillMath/ http://worrydream.com/KillMath/
- CrazedGeek 15y agoI don't know, the anthropomorphic lemon saying "easy peasy" enhanced it greatly for me. (Seriously, there's a certain great charm to these sorts of things that make them strangely appealing to certain people, like me. It might not be great for learning, but it's awesome as entertainment.)
- capnrefsmmat 15y agoIt's certainly fun to look at, but I'd have a hard time following any of the mathematics. What I'd like to see is an online calculus book which takes advantage of interactive animations and graphing to demonstrate how things like integrals and derivatives work. For example, for the limit-based definition of derivatives, you could concoct an animation showing how the math works as deltaX goes to 0, and so on. There's also clever ways of demonstrating the product rule through geometry that make the math make so much more sense. There's a lot of potential in interactive, graphical textbooks that has yet to be explored, I think.
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- AnthonBerg 15y ago<i>"this is useless for anyone other than the author"</i> I thought we had gone over this: EVERYBODY LEARNS MATHEMATICS DIFFERENTLY :) This book is useless for you and wonderful for me.