Book:David Acheson/The Calculus Story
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David Acheson: The Calculus Story: A Mathematical Adventure
Published $\text {2017}$, Oxford
- ISBN 978-0-19-880454-3
Subject Matter
Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Spirit of Mathematics
- 3 Infinity
- 4 How Steep is a Curve?
- 5 Differentiation
- 6 Greatest and Least
- 7 Playing with Infinity
- 8 Area and Volume
- 9 Infinite Series
- 10 "Too Much Delight"
- 11 Dynamics
- 12 Newton and Planetary Motion
- 13 Leibniz's Paper of 1684
- 14 "An Enigma"
- 15 Who Invented Calculus?
- 16 Round in Circles
- 17 Pi and the Odd Numbers
- 18 Calculus Under Attack
- 19 Differential Equations
- 20 Calculus and the Electric Guitar
- 21 The Best of all Possible Worlds?
- 22 The Mysterious Number e
- 23 How to Make a Series
- 24 Calculus with Imaginary Numbers
- 25 Infinity Bites Back
- 26 What is a Limit, Exactly?
- 27 The Equations of Nature
- 28 From Calculus to Chaos
- Further Reading
- References for Quotations
- Picture Credits
- Index
Critical View
- One of the best books ever.