Calculus Made Easy

In 1891, Silvanus P. Thompson was elected to the Royal Society. He authored a number of technical books and manuals on electricity, magnetism, dynamos, and optics, as well as several popular biographies of notable scientists.

Martin Gardner has published multiple book reviews for The New York Review of Books and has been a columnist for Scientific American for over twenty-five years. Calculus Made Easy and When You Were a Tadpole and I Were a Fish are two of his publications.

Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner's Calculus Made Easy has long been the most popular calculus primer. This major edition of the classic math textbook makes the subject even more understandable to students of all levels. Calculus Made Easy has been extensively updated for the modern reader, with a new introduction, three new chapters, modernized language and procedures throughout, and an appendix of hard and interesting practice problems.

This traditional calculus primer has been turned into a modern masterpiece that presents the timeless fundamentals of calculus in a contemporary and user-friendly manner in one of the most important popular math publications of the decade. Martin Gardner, Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" columnist for almost a quarter-century, is the ideal mathematician to make calculus accessible once more.

Calculus, while commonly regarded as the most difficult topic faced by a math student, does not have to be insurmountable. Calculus Made Easy was written about ninety years ago by Silvanus P. Thompson to demonstrate that differential and integral calculus is not at all difficult. Thompson believed that once a reader understood the fundamental ideas of differentiation and integration, the remainder of calculus would fall into place. His entire success is evidenced by the book's ongoing popularity over the years.

Gardner has extensively updated Calculus Made Easy since 1921 to incorporate contemporary changes in method and vocabulary, written a long prologue and three new introductory chapters, and included more than twenty recreational problems for practice and fun.

Calculus Made Easy, already the best primer for the general reader, has become even more approachable and enlightening in the skillful hands of one of the twentieth century's finest minds.

Author: Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner

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