Author: Silvanus Phillips Thompson

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Published: 1917

Total Pages: 288

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Synopsis: Calculus Made Easy is a book on infinitesimal calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject. The original text continues to be available as of 2008 from Macmillan and Co., but a 1998 update by Martin Gardner is available from St. Martin's Press which provides an introduction; three preliminary chapters explaining functions, limits, and derivatives; an appendix of recreational calculus problems; and notes for modern readers. Gardner changes "fifth form boys" to the more American sounding (and gender neutral) "high school students," updates many now obsolescent mathematical notations or terms, and uses American decimal dollars and cents in currency examples.Calculus Made Easy ignores the use of limits with its epsilon-delta definition, replacing it with a method of approximation directly to the correct answer in the infinitesimal spirit of Leibniz, now formally justified in modern non-standard analysis.About the author: Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS (19 June 1851 - 12 June 1916) was a professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as an electrical engineer and as an author. Thompson's most enduring publication is his 1910 text Calculus Made Easy, which teaches the fundamentals of infinitesimal calculus, and is still in print. Thompson also wrote a popular physics text, Elementary Lessons in Electricity and Magnetism, as well as biographies of Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday.Information about the original edition: Published: 1914 Writer: Silvanus Phillips Thompson Publisher: The Macmillan CompanyInformation about the present edition: Type of book: Facsimile reproduction (made of scanned images; link: archive.org/details/CalculusMadeEasy ) Numer of pages: 314 Color interior: Black and White Color page: White Published: April, 2017 Publisher: Tar-PalandirAdditional information: This book is in public domain in the United States because it was originally published prior to 1923. It is an important historical work, and as such we should preserved it in his original format. Other publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, but I believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. Because of this, I think is better to reprint the original scanned images. However, this method is not perfect and there are also errors, such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Although I try to adequately clean and digitally enhance the scanned images, occassional imperfetions may appear. I appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.