A Concise Introduction to Calculus by Wu Yi Hsiang

By Wu Yi Hsiang

The scholar of calculus is entitled to invite what calculus is and what it may be used for. This brief e-book presents a solution. the writer begins through demonstrating that calculus offers a mathematical software for the quantitative research of quite a lot of dynamical phenomena and structures with variable amounts. The textual content then seems on the origins and intuitive resources of calculus, its basic technique, and its normal framework and simple constitution, sooner than interpreting a number of standard purposes. The author's type is direct and pedagogical. the recent scholar may still locate that the booklet presents a transparent and robust grounding during this vital procedure.

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I provide free translations for all examples. The translations for written material examples have been confined to footnotes in order to make them as unobtrusive as possible, since they are merely free translations and only serve to provide the reader with the approximate meaning of the sentence, in case the reader should not have understood that by him/herself. Hence, nuances and subtleties may not have been correctly represented. I apologize to all authors of the texts cited for any misinterpretations and clumsy translations.

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