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<title>Calculus Made Easy</title>
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<h1>Calculus Made Easy</h1>
<h2>by<br>Silvanus P. Thompson</h2>
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<center> <h4>What one fool can do, another can.</h4></center>
<center><h5>(Ancient Simian Proverb.)</h5></center>
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<h3>Table of Contents</h3>
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<li><a href="prologue.html">Prologue</a>
<li><a href="1.html"> I. To Deliver You From The Preliminary Terrors</a>
<li><a href="2.html"> II. On Different Degrees of Smallness</a>
<li><a href="3.html"> III. On Relative Growings</a>
<li><a href="4.html"> IV. Simplest Cases</a>
<li><a href="5.html"> V. Next Stage. What to do with Constants</a>
<li><a href="6.html"> VI. Sums, Differences, Products and Quotients</a>
<li><a href="7.html"> VII. Successive Differentiation</a>
<li><a href="8.html"> VIII. When Time Varies</a>
<li><a href="9.html"> IX. Introducing a Useful Dodge</a>
<li><a href="10.html"> X. Geometrical Meaning of Differentiation</a>
<li><a href="11.html"> XI Maxima and Minima</a>
<li><a href="12.html"> XII. Curvature of Curves </a>
<li><a href="13.html"> XIII. Other Useful Dodges</a>
<li><a href="14.html"> XIV. (a) On true Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth</a>
<li><a href="14b.html"> XIV. (b) The Die-away Curve</a>
<li><a href="15.html"> XV. How To Deal With Sines And Cosines</a>
<li><a href="16.html"> XVI. Partial Differentiation</a>
<li><a href="17.html"> XVII. Integration</a>
<li><a href="18.html"> XVIII. Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating</a>
<li><a href="19.html"> XIX. On Finding Areas by Integrating</a>
<li><a href="20.html"> XX. Dodges, Pitfalls, and Triumphs</a>
<li><a href="21.html"> XXI. Finding some Solutions</a>
<li><a href="epilogue.html"> Epilogue and Apologue</a>
<li><a href="table.html"> Table of Standard Forms</a>
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<h4>About this book</h4>
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Calculus Made Easy is a book on calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject.
<div style="text-align:right">From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy" style="width:5em">Wikipedia</a></div>
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I read "Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus P. Thompson and it's still to this day my inspiration for explaining complex technical topics to lay people. It's a fantastic book, and even if you know math you <em>must</em> read it if you want to understand how to teach complexity to others. <small><em><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299805">(source)</a></em></small>
<div style="text-align:right">-- <a href="http://zedshaw.com/" style="width:5em">Zed Shaw</a><br>Author of <a href="http://learncodethehardway.org/">Learn Code the Hard Way</a></div>
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Thompson creates a warm, inviting environment where students will learn and grasp the true essence of calculus without any added fluff or overt technicality. <small><em><a href="http://math-blog.com/mathematics-books/">(source)</a></em></small>
<div style="text-align:right">-- <a href="http://math-blog.com/mathematics-books/" style="width:5em">Math-Blog.com</a></div>
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Most college calculus texts weigh a ton; this one does not — it just gets to the point. This is how I learned calculus: my uncle gave me a copy. <small><em><a href="http://math.ucr.edu/home//baez/books.html">(source)</a></em></small>
<div style="text-align:right">-- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez">John Baez</a><br> Mathematical physicist, author of <a href="https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/">n-Category Café</a></div>
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<h3>What next?</h3>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-3rd-Gilbert-Strang/dp/0980232759/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=calculusmad0b-20&linkId=bff7f0d5786f75c16ea3b5ecdb44d32f&language=en_US"><img class="cover" src="strang.jpg" width="186"/>
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<li>I have enjoyed <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-3rd-Gilbert-Strang/dp/0980232759/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=calculusmad0b-20&linkId=bff7f0d5786f75c16ea3b5ecdb44d32f&language=en_US">Calculus, Second edition</a>* by Gilbert Strang. It is similar to Calculus Made Easy, but is more advanced.
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complex-Analysis-Tristan-Needham/dp/0198534469/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=calculusmad0b-20&linkId=36f5fedef340e5c0c152cf95aa4f00c6&language=en_US"><img class="cover" src="needham.jpg" width="186"/>
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<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complex-Analysis-Tristan-Needham/dp/0198534469/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=calculusmad0b-20&linkId=36f5fedef340e5c0c152cf95aa4f00c6&language=en_US">Visual Complex Analysis</a>* is legendary. Just as Calculus Made Easy it uses geometrical approach instead of usual symbolic one.
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nonlinear-Dynamics-Chaos-Applications-Nonlinearity/dp/0813349109/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=calculusmad0b-20&linkId=a8fbc09ac32d738609c9ff150c749a97&language=en_US"><img class="cover" src="strogatz.jpg" width="186"/>
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<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nonlinear-Dynamics-Chaos-Applications-Nonlinearity/dp/0813349109/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=calculusmad0b-20&linkId=a8fbc09ac32d738609c9ff150c749a97&language=en_US">Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos</a>* is another more advanced textbook that is famous for its great pedagogy. You can also find <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbN57C5Zdl6j_qJA-pARJnKsmROzPnO9V">Strogatz's lectures on youtube.</a>
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<h3>About this edition & thanks</h3>
The text is based on <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283">the PDF version</a> from Project Gutenberg converted to html by hand.<p>Thanks to Paula Appling, Don Bindner, Chris Curnow, Andrew D. Hwang
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