Calculus Made Easy -- Silvanus P. Thompson, Hardcover

Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner has long been the most popular calculus primer.

This major revision of the classic math text makes the subject at hand still more comprehensible to readers of all levels. With a new introduction, three new chapters, modernized language and methods throughout, and an appendix of challenging and enjoyable practice problems, Calculus Made Easy has been thoroughly updated for the modern reader.

Author: Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 10/15/1998
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.75w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780312185480

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/15/1998 pg. 1692

About the Author

Silvanus P. Thompson, born in 1851, was elected to the Royal Society in 1891. He wrote numerous technical books and manuals on electricity, magnetism, dynamos, and optics, as well as several popular biographies of prominent scientists. Thompson died in 1916.

Martin Gardner, born in 1914, has written several reviews for The New York Review of Books and was a Scientific American columnist for over twenty-five years. He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.