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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

 Item — Special Collection: MC-19, Book: 004, Call No.: QA 303 .T45 1957
Identifier: 20061160

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

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.

Repository Details

Part of the The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives & Special Collections Repository

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