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Martin gardner october 21, 1914 may 22, 2010 was an american popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literatureespecially the writings of lewis carroll, l. I myself learned calculus in much the same way as it is presented in this book, only a century later. Calculus made easy is a book on infinitesimal calculus tthompson published in by silvanus p. Martin canlne deserves huge thanks for renewing this great book. Its still not that easy, but as martin gardner explains in the before there was the beloved martin gardner, there was sylvanus p thompson. Being a verysimplest introduction to those beautiful methods of reckoning which are generally called by the terrifying names of the. But if we go further and take dxto mean only 1 of x, then the second term will be 2 of x2, while the third term will be only 1 1. With a new introduction, three new chapters, modernized language and methods throughout, and an appendix of challenging and enjoyable practice problems, calculus made easy has been thoroughly updated. Thompson and published in, with subsequent editions in. Here is a link from the comments that includes a highquality pdf of the text instead of. Calculus made easy has been a classic introduction to the subject ever since it was first.
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