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When I saw it was for computer scientists, I briefly hoped that it would take the Big-O, little-o approach as Knuth recommended in 1998. See https://micromath.w
by btilly 11mo ago
When I saw it was for computer scientists, I briefly hoped that it would take the Big-O, little-o approach as Knuth recommended in 1998. See https://micromath.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/donald-knuth-calculus-via-o-notation/ https://micromath.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/donald-knuth-calc... for a repost of Knuth's letter on the topic.
Sadly, no. It just seems to start with a gentle version of real analysis, leading into basic Calculus.
- svat 11mo agoRelated to your comment, not the original post/book: - On Knuth’s idea (which seems good to me), see http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/knuth-big-o-calculus-implicit-definitions-difficulty-of/ http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/knuth-big-o-ca... but also the last two comments by David Speyer. - And see also http://cornellmath.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/non-nonstandard-calculus-i/ http://cornellmath.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/non-nonstandard-... and http://texnicalstuff.blogspot.in/2011/05/big-o-notation-for-calculus.html http://texnicalstuff.blogspot.in/2011/05/big-o-notation-for-... that seem to have tried teaching along somewhat similar (but different) lines. - See https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/05/10/partially-specified-mathematical-objects-ambient-parameters-and-asymptotic-notation/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/05/10/partially-specifie... for a further formalization of O notation. (These links via comments I left to myself at 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...)
- rramadass 11mo agoThe book does introduce/use O-notation under the section "Order of Vanishing" in the "Limits and Continuity" chapter.