A First Course In The Differential And Integral Calculus 1907

Author : William F. Osgood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330005613
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book A First Course in the Differential and Integral Calculus written by William F. Osgood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A First Course in the Differential and Integral Calculus The treatment of the calculus that here follows is based on the courses which I have given in this subject in Harvard College for a number of years and corresponds in its main outlines to the course as given by Professor B. O. Peirce in the early eighties. The introduction of the integral as the limit of a sum at an early stage is due to Professor Byerly, who made this important change more than a dozen years ago. Professor Byerly, moreover, was a pioneer in this country in teaching the calculus by means of problems, his work in this direction dating from the seventies. The chief characteristics of the treatment are the close touch between the calculus and those problems of physics, including geometry, to which it owed its origin; and the simplicity and directness with which the principles of the calculus are set forth. It is important that the formal side of the calculus should be thoroughly taught in a first course, and great stress has been laid on this side. But nowhere do the ideas that underlie the calculus come out more clearly than in its applications to curve tracing and the study of curves and surfaces, in definite integrals with their varied applications to physics and geometry, and in mechanics. For this reason these subjects have been taken up at an early stage and illustrated by many examples not usually found in American text-books. It is exceedingly difficult to cover in a first course in the calculus all the subjects that claim a place there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.