The Facts on File calculus handbook / Eli Maor.
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- 081604581X (acidfree paper)
- Calculus handbook
- 515 21
- QA303.2 .M36 2003
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Among the topics covered are: Absolute value, Binomial Theorem, Derivative, Exponential growth, Greatest integer function, Implicit differentiation, Integration, Law of Cosines, Linear function, Parabola, Polynomial functions, Second derivative, Velocity. Biographies include: Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705) Rene Descartes (1596-1650) Eudoxus of Cnidus (ca. 408-355 BCE) Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Francois Viete (1540-1603) John Wallis (1616-1703).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160) and index.
The calculus: a historical introduction -- Section 1: Glossary -- Section 2: Biographies -- Section 3: Chronology -- Section 4: Charts & Tables.