Calculus Made Easy: Being A Very Simplest Introduction To Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning Which are Generally Called By the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and Intregral Calculus (Second Edition, Enlarged), 1914, 1957
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).
Purpose: Training and Education.
Authority: Author Expertise.
Scope:
An introductory guide to Calculus with problems, answers, and examples.
Contents (from Table of Contents):
Prologue
1. To Deliver You from the Preliminary Terrord
2. On Different Degrees of Smallness
3. On Relative Growings
4. Simplest Cases
5. Next Stage. What to Do with Constants
6. Sums, Differences, Products, and Quotients
7. Successive Differentiation
8. When Time Varies
9. Introducing a Useful Dodge
10. Geometrical Meaning of Differentiation
11. Maxima and Minima
12. Curvature of Curves
13. Other Useful Dodges
14. On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth
15. How to Deal with Sines and Cosines
16. Partial Differentiation
17. Integration
18. Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating
19. On Finding Areas by Integrating
20. Dodges, Pitfalls, and Triumphs
21. Finding Some Solutions
22. A Little More About Curvature of Curves
23. How to Find the Length of an Arc on a Curve
Epilogue and Apologue
Table of Standard Forms
Answers to Exercises
Dates
- Copyright: 1914
- Printed: 1957
Creator
- Macmillan Company (Publisher, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.
Full Extent
1 Volume (1 book)
Language of Materials
English
Format & Physical Description
Hardcover bound book, 7” height x 4.75” depth x 0.8" thickness (324 pages including flyleaf pages). Printed on matte paper. Includes black & white drawings, charts and tables.
Note: Overall very good condition with moderate foxing and "George Martin" (donor) written in teal ink on flyleaf pages.
Publication Data
Copyright by The Macmillan Company. Second Edition, Enlarged. Twenty-sixith printing. Printed in the United States.
Preservation
Preservation Level 5. No conservation required as of June 2026.
Source
- Martin, George P. (Donor, Person)
- Aircraft Engine Historical Society, Inc. (Donor, Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives & Special Collections Repository
M. Louis Salmon Library
301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville Alabama 35899 United States of America
256-824-6523
archives@uah.edu
