Calculus Made Easy DVD case

Calculus Made Easy

Silvanus P. Thompson


If you are one of the many people who are intimidated and baffled by mathematics, this book is for you.  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 the Integral Calculus by Silvanus P. Thompson has been considered “a classic and elegant Introduction to the subject” of infinitesimal calculus ever since its initial publication in 1910.  Written for British students, the concepts are presented in simple, clear terms in an accessible, conversational style with a dash of wry humor thrown in for good measure.  Each chapter is accompanied by problem sets that further illuminate the concepts and that students seem to enjoy working through. Many report that they are awakened to the genius of calculus and thoroughly delighted by their ability to finally understand an often intimidating discipline.

From the Prologue…
Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics—and they are mostly clever fools—seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way. Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.

Product Details

Read by: Multiple readers
Length: 10 hours and 3 minutes
Type: Collaborative reading
Media: MP3 CD
Package: CD jacket
Item No.: CJ-1198
EAN: 0687700169888
List Price: $10.99

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Proof Listener: TriciaG

Artwork
Inset: Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, Fig. 4
Inset:  Picture of English scientist, Silvanus Thompson, 1920, from Silvanus Thompson, His Life and Letters, Thompson and Thompson.

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Table of Contents

Track Section Reader Length
01 00 - Preface to the Second Edition Prologue Adam 2:02
02 01 - Chapter I: To Deliver You from the Preliminary Terrors Adam 2:35
03 02 - Chapter II: On Different Degrees of Smallness Mike Pelton 11:04
04 03 - Chapter III: On Relative Growings katetastrophe 17:20
05 04 - Chapter IV: Simplest Cases katetastrophe 17:36
06 05 - Exercises I Answers to Exercises I Adam 3:57
07 06 - Chapter V: Next Stage. What to Do With Constants Le 17:48
08 07 - Exercises II Answers to Exercises II Le 11:25
09 08 - Chapter VI: Sums Differences Products and Quotients Le 32:15
10 09 - Exercises III Answers to Exercises III Paul E J King 10:10
11 10 - Chapter VII: Successive Differentiation Paul E J King 5:27
12 11 - Exercises IV Answers to Exercises IV Le 6:33
13 12 - Chapter VIII: When Time Varies - Part 1 Jargoniel 16:07
14 13 - Chapter VIII: When Time Varies - Part 2 Jargoniel 15:09
15 14 - Exercises V Answers to Exercises V Bruce Kachuk 6:23
16 15 - Chapter IX: Introducing a Useful Dodge Bruce Kachuk 25:28
17 16 - Exercises VI and VII Answers to Exercises VI and VII realisticspeakers 11:08
18 17 - Chapter X: Geometrical Meaning of Differentiaton Le 16:22
19 18 - Exercises VIII Answers to Exercises VIII clarinetcarrot 5:40
20 19 - Chapter XI: Maxima and Minima - Part 1 clarinetcarrot 14:04
21 20 - Chapter XI: Maxima and Minima - Part 2 clarinetcarrot 17:10
22 21 - Exercises IX Answers to Exercises IX clarinetcarrot 5:40
23 22 - Chapter XII: Curvature of Curves clarinetcarrot 13:45
24 23 - Exercises X Answers to Exercises X clarinetcarrot 7:15
25 24 - Chapter XIII: Other Useful Dodges - Part 1: Partial Fractions clarinetcarrot 23:40
26 25 - Exercises XI Answers to Exercises XI clarinetcarrot 8:14
27 26 - Chapter XIII: Other Useful Dodges - Part 2: Differential of an Inverse Function clarinetcarrot 5:21
28 27 - Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 1 (A) Paul E J King 18:53
29 28 - Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 1 (B) Paul E J King 27:29
30 29 - Exercises XII Answers to Exercises XII Paul E J King 6:47
31 30 - Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 2: The Logarithmic Curve Le 2:46
32 31 - Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 3: The Die-away Curve Le 21:47
33 32 - Exercises XIII Answers to Exercises XIII Le 8:11
34 33 - Chapter XV: How to Deal With Sines and Cosines  - Part 1 Son of the Exiles 8:53
35 34 - Chapter XV: How to Deal With Sines and Cosines - Part 2: Second Differential Coefficient of Sine or Cosine Ielmie 6:35
36 35 - Exercises XIV Answers to Exercises XIV Le 8:57
37 36 - Chapter XVI: Partial Differentiation - Part 1 clarinetcarrot 7:31
38 37 - Chapter XVI: Partial Differentiation - Part 2: Maxima and Minima of Functions of two Independent Variables clarinetcarrot 4:32
39 38 - Exercises XV Answers to Exercises XV clarinetcarrot 6:43
40 39 - Chapter XVII: Integration - Part 1 Bruce Kachuk 5:07
41 40 - Chapter XVII: Integration - Part 2: Slopes of Curves and the Curves themselves Bruce Kachuk 6:40
42 41 - Exercises XVI Answers to Exercises XVI Bruce Kachuk 2:08
43 42 - Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 1 Bruce Kachuk 8:59
44 43 - Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 2: Integration of the Sum or Difference of two Functions Bruce Kachuk 1:51
45 44 - Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 3: How to Deal With Constant Terms Bruce Kachuk 9:06
46 45 - Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 4: Some Other Integrals Bruce Kachuk 5:56
47 46 - Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 5: On Double and Triple Integrals Bruce Kachuk 4:18
48 47 - Exercises XVII Answers to Exercises XVII Bruce Kachuk 6:34
49 48 - Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 1 Bruce Kachuk 23:34
50 49 - Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 2: Areas in Polar Coordinates Bruce Kachuk 3:40
51 50 - Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 3: Volumes by Integration Bruce Kachuk 3:41
52 51 - Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 4: On Quadratic Means Bruce Kachuk 3:59
53 52 - Exercises XVIII Answers to Exercises XVIII clarinetcarrot 7:41
54 53 - Chapter XX: Dodges Pitfalls and Triumphs clarinetcarrot 14:47
55 54 - Exercises XIX Answers to Exercises XIX clarinetcarrot 5:03
56 55 - Chapter XXI: Finding Some Solutions - Part 1 clarinetcarrot 14:57
57 56 - Chapter XXI: Finding Some Solutions - Part 2 clarinetcarrot 13:04
58 57 - Epilogue and Apologue Rachel 3:25

 

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