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An edition of A tour of the calculus (1995)

A tour of the calculus

1st Vintage pbk. ed.

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
349

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Subjects
Calculus, Mathematics, Philosophy, Popular works, Calcul infinitésimal, Ouvrages de vulgarisation, Analyse (wiskunde), Mathematics, philosophy
People
Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), Euclid (fl.300 B.C), Isaac Newton Sir (1642-1727), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Freiherr von (1646-1716), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Richard Rolle of Hampole (1290?-1349), Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), René Descartes (1596-1650), Augustin Louis Cauchy Baron (1789-1857), Zeno of Elea, J. L. Lagrange (1736-1813)
Places
Vienna, Prague

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Table of Contents

Introduction/ xi
A Note to the Reader/ xv
The Frame of the Book/ xvii
chapter 1 / Masters of the Symbols/ 3
chapter 2 / Symbols of the Masters/ 9
chapter 3 / The Black Blossoms of Geometry / 16
chapter 4 / Cartesian Coordinates / 21
chapter 5 / The Unbearable Smoothness of Motion / 30
chapter 6 / Yo/ 35
chapter 7 / Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Line / 40
chapter 8 / The Doctor of Discovery / 44
chapter 9 / Real World Rising / 54
chapter 10 / Forever Familiar, Forever Unknown / 61
chapter 11 / Some Famous Functions/ 75
chapter 12 / Speed of Sorts/ 92
chapter 13 / Speed, Strange Speed / 106
chapter 14 / Paris Days/ 118
chapter 15 / Prague Interlude / 129
chapter 16 / Memory of Motion / 155
chapter 17 / The Dimpled Shoulder / 173
chapter 18 / Wrong Way Rolle / 190
chapter 19 / The Mean Value Theorem /198
chapter 20 / The Song of Igor / 217
chapter 21 / Area / 244
chapter 22 / Those Legos Vanish / 252
chapter 23 / The Integral Wishes to Compute an area / 268
chapter 24 / The Integral Wishes to Become a Function / 274
chapter 25 / Between the Living and the Dead / 282
chapter 26 / A Farewell to Continuity / 304
Epilogue / 311
Acknowledgements / 313
Index / 315

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Genre
Popular works.
Copyright Date
1995

Classifications

Library of Congress
QA303 .B488 1997, QA303, QA303 .B488 1995

Contributors

Book Designer
Deborah Kerner
Cover Design
Henry Sene Yee

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
xvii, 331 p. :
Number of pages
349

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OL17459446M
Internet Archive
tourofcalculus00davi
ISBN 10
0679747885
OCLC/WorldCat
36390508
Library Thing
32056
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316793

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