Thompson, Silvanus P.

Calculus made easy : being a very simplest introduction to those beautiful methods of reckoning which are generally called by the terrifying names of the differential calculus and integral calculus / / Silvanus P. Thompson. - 3rd ed. - London : Macmillan, 1946. - vi, 250 p. ; 19 cm. - Classic Text Series; .

Reprint. Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1919.

1. TO DELIVER YOU FROM THE PRELIMINARY TERROR --
II. ON DIFFERENT DEGREES OF SMALLNESS --
III. ON RELATIVE GROWINGS. --
IV. SIMPLEST CASES. --
V. NEXT STAGE. WHAT TO DO WITH CONSTANTS --
VI. SUMS, DIFFERENCES, PRODUCTS, AND QUOTIENTS --
VII. SUCCESSIVE DIFFERENTIATION --
VIII. WHEN TIME VARIES --
IX. INTRODUCING A USEFUL DODGE --
X. GEOMETRICAL MEANING OF DIFFERENTIATION --
XI. MAXIMA AND MINIMA XII. CURVATURE OF CURVES --
XIII. OTHER USEFUL DODGES --
XIV. ON TRUE COMPOUND INTEREST AND THE LAW OF ORGANIC GROWTH --
XV. How TO DEAL WITH SINES AND COSINES --
XVI. PARTIAL DIFFERENTIATION --
XVII. INTEGRATION --
XVIII. INTEGRATING AS THE REVERSE OF DIFFERENTIATING --
XIX. ON FINDING AREAS BY INTEGRATING --
XX. DODGES, PITFALLS, AND TRIUMPHS --
XXI. SOLUTIONS --
XXII A LITTLE MORE ABOUT CURVATURE OF CURVES --
XXIII. HOW TO FIND THE LENGTH OF AN ARC ON A CURVE.

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Calculus.
Analysis.
Calculus--Integration.
Calculus--Partial Differentiation.

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