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Calculus Essentials For Dummies (9781119591207) was previously published as Calculus Essentials For Dummies (9780470618356). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.
Many colleges and universities require students to take at least one math course, and Calculus I is often the chosen option. Calculus
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Presents an engaging explanation of calculus that demonstrates its simplicity and essential role in explaining the universe and enabling life-improving technologies.
This is the captivating story of mathematics' greatest ever idea: calculus. Without it, there would be no computers, no microwave ovens, no GPS, and no space travel. But before it gave modern man almost infinite powers, calculus was behind centuries of controversy, competition, and even...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Fernandez uses our everyday experiences to skillfully reveal the hidden calculus behind a typical day's events. He guides us through how math naturally emerges from simple observations -- how hot coffee cools down, for example -- and in discussions of over fifty familiar events and activities. Fernandez demonstrates that calculus can be used to explore practically any aspect of our lives, including the most effective number of hours to sleep and...
5) Calculus II
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Series
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For Dummies, a Wiley brand
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The easy (okay, easier) way to master advanced calculus topics and theories Calculus II For Dummies will help you get through your (notoriously difficult) calc class―or pass a standardized test like the MCAT with flying colors. Calculus is required for many majors, but not everyone’s a natural at it. This friendly book breaks down tricky concepts in plain English, in a way that you can understand. Practical examples and detailed walkthroughs...
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Learning Express
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"This comprehensive study guide walks you step by step though 501 calculus questions--helping you sharpen your skills and build problem-solving techniques. Organized by topic, 501 Calculus Questions features extensive practice for calculus concepts." --
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Calculus Reordered takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus grew to what we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz in the seventeenth century, and how its current structure is based on developments that arose in the nineteenth century. Bressoud argues that a pedagogy informed by the historical development of calculus presents a sounder...
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Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The next book from Orlin, the popular math blogger and author of the underground bestseller Math With Bad Drawings. This book is an engaging and eloquent exploration of the intersection between calculus and daily life, complete with Orlin's sly humor and wonderfully bad drawings.
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a novel graphic from Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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The internationally bestselling authors of The Cartoon Introduction to Economics return to make calculus fun. The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has teamed up once again with the worlds only stand-up economist, Yoram Bauman, Ph.D., to take on the daunting subject of calculus. A supplement to traditional textbooks, The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus focuses on the big ideas rather than all the formulas you have to memorize. With Klein and...
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LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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The six units in this tutorial build from a review of basic algebra skills to advanced concepts like rational expressions and equations, and offer the detailed concept review and practice a college student needs to prepare for a course in Pre-Calculus.
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Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it. On August 10, 1632, five leaders of the Society of Jesus convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden. With the stroke of a pen...
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