Calculus and Its Origins

Name: Calculus and Its Origins
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ISBN: 9780883855751

ISBN-10: 0883855755

ISBN-13: 9780883855751

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Perkins

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Calculus answers questions that had been explored for centuries before calculus was born. Calculus and Its Origins begins with these ancient questions and details the remarkable story of how subsequent scholars wove these inquiries into a unified theory. This book does not presuppose knowledge of calculus, it requires only a basic knowledge of geometry and algebra (similar triangles, polynomials, factoring). Inside you will find the accounts of how Archimedes discovered the area of a parabolic segment, ibn Al-Haytham calculated the volume of a revolved area, Jyesthadeva explained the infinite series for sine and cosine, Wallis deduced the link between hyperbolas and logarithms, Newton…

Book details

List price: $88.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Publication date: 12/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 185
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

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Preface



The Ancients



East of Greece



Motion



Indivisibles



Quadrature



The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus



Notation



Chords



Zero over zero



Rigor