Silvanus Phillips Thompson

Calculus Made Easy - Second Edition Silvanus Phillips Thompson

Calculus Made Easy has helped literally millions of students learn the basic principles of calculus since it was first published, and today remains one of the simplest and most straightforward and easy-to-comprehend guides to this difficult course. If you are struggling with calculus, if you want a refresher, or if you want to learn the basic principles before taking calculus in the classroom, this book will help you. Written in plain English, suitable for readers 6th grade and up, with many examples and exercises to help you understand the basics of calculus. You?ll find that calculus truly is made easy with this helpful guide. The chapter titles are: (1) To Deliver You from the Preliminary Terrors, (2) On Different Degrees of Smallness, (3) On Relative Growings, (4) Simplest Cases, (5) Nest Stage: What to Do with Constants, (6) Sums, Differences, Products, and Quotients, (7) Successive Differentiation, (8) When Time Varies, (9) Introducing a Useful Dodge, (10) Geometrical Meaning of Differentiation, (11) Maxima and Minima, (12) Curvature of Curves, (13) Other Useful Dodges, (14) On the Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth, (15) How to Deal with Sines and Cosines, (16) Partial Differentiation, (17) Integration, (18) Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating, (19) On Finding Areas by Integrating, (20) Dodges, Pitfalls, and Triumphs, and (21) Finding Some Solutions, Table of Standard Forms, Answers to Exercises. There are over 230 Exercises at the ends of chapters for students to solve. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of this useful textbook