Calculus Reordered
Title | Calculus Reordered PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Bressoud |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2021-05-04 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0691218781 |
Calculus Reordered takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus grew to what we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz in the seventeenth century, and how its current structure is based on developments that arose in the nineteenth century. Bressoud argues that a pedagogy informed by the historical development of calculus presents a sounder way for students to learn this fascinating area of mathematics. Delving into calculus's birth in the Hellenistic Eastern Mediterranean--especially Syracuse in Sicily and Alexandria in Egypt--as well as India and the Islamic Middle East, Bressoud considers how calculus developed in response to essential questions emerging from engineering and astronomy. He looks at how Newton and Leibniz built their work on a flurry of activity that occurred throughout Europe, and how Italian philosophers such as Galileo Galilei played a particularly important role. In describing calculus's evolution, Bressoud reveals problems with the standard ordering of its curriculum: limits, differentiation, integration, and series. He contends instead that the historical order--which follows first integration as accumulation, then differentiation as ratios of change, series as sequences of partial sums, and finally limits as they arise from the algebra of inequalities--makes more sense in the classroom environment. Exploring the motivations behind calculus's discovery, Calculus Reordered highlights how this essential tool of mathematics came to be.
Second Year Calculus
Title | Second Year Calculus PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Bressoud |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 1461209595 |
Second Year Calculus: From Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity covers multi-variable and vector calculus, emphasizing the historical physical problems which gave rise to the concepts of calculus. The book guides us from the birth of the mechanized view of the world in Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in which mathematics becomes the ultimate tool for modelling physical reality, to the dawn of a radically new and often counter-intuitive age in Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity in which it is the mathematical model which suggests new aspects of that reality. The development of this process is discussed from the modern viewpoint of differential forms. Using this concept, the student learns to compute orbits and rocket trajectories, model flows and force fields, and derive the laws of electricity and magnetism. These exercises and observations of mathematical symmetry enable the student to better understand the interaction of physics and mathematics.
The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
Title | The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development PDF eBook |
Author | Carl B. Boyer |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2012-10-09 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0486175383 |
Fluent description of the development of both the integral and differential calculus — its early beginnings in antiquity, medieval contributions, and a consideration of Newton and Leibniz.
Meromorphic Functions and Analytic Curves. (AM-12)
Title | Meromorphic Functions and Analytic Curves. (AM-12) PDF eBook |
Author | Hermann Weyl |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2016-03-02 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 1400882281 |
The description for this book, Meromorphic Functions and Analytic Curves. (AM-12), will be forthcoming.
The Calculus Lifesaver
Title | The Calculus Lifesaver PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Banner |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 752 |
Release | 2007-03-25 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0691130884 |
For many students, calculus can be the most mystifying and frustrating course they will ever take. Based upon Adrian Banner's popular calculus review course at Princeton University, this book provides students with the essential tools they need not only to learn calculus, but also to excel at it.
Unknown Quantity
Title | Unknown Quantity PDF eBook |
Author | John Derbyshire |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 2006-06-02 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 030909657X |
Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip out the slide rules, and buckle up! John Derbyshire is introducing us to algebra through the ages-and it promises to be just what his die-hard fans have been waiting for. "Here is the story of algebra." With this deceptively simple introduction, we begin our journey. Flanked by formulae, shadowed by roots and radicals, escorted by an expert who navigates unerringly on our behalf, we are guaranteed safe passage through even the most treacherous mathematical terrain. Our first encounter with algebraic arithmetic takes us back 38 centuries to the time of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Ur and Haran, Sodom and Gomorrah. Moving deftly from Abel's proof to the higher levels of abstraction developed by Galois, we are eventually introduced to what algebraists have been focusing on during the last century. As we travel through the ages, it becomes apparent that the invention of algebra was more than the start of a specific discipline of mathematics-it was also the birth of a new way of thinking that clarified both basic numeric concepts as well as our perception of the world around us. Algebraists broke new ground when they discarded the simple search for solutions to equations and concentrated instead on abstract groups. This dramatic shift in thinking revolutionized mathematics. Written for those among us who are unencumbered by a fear of formulae, Unknown Quantity delivers on its promise to present a history of algebra. Astonishing in its bold presentation of the math and graced with narrative authority, our journey through the world of algebra is at once intellectually satisfying and pleasantly challenging.
Calculus on Heisenberg Manifolds
Title | Calculus on Heisenberg Manifolds PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Beals |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1988-08-21 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780691085012 |
The description for this book, Calculus on Heisenberg Manifolds. (AM-119), Volume 119, will be forthcoming.