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A while ago I saw someone posting a book about Calculus in HN forum that was written decades ago, probably 40s or 50s. I liked it and could not find it back. Does anyone have link to it?



I have Thomas' Calculus from the 1960s, the same book that Knuth promotes in interviews as being responsible for him choosing a math degree. Very high signal to noise ratio without being as terse as Apostol https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Analytic-Geometry-Supplement...

However I really enjoy algebraic calculus and wish somebody had taught me this in highschool https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIljB45xT85CSlgGh3681...


This was my text at MIT in the 80s and I still have it on my shelf!


Was it Calculus Made Easy?

https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/...

It seems easy to find a pdf on the web, but I didn't want to post that.


The original (not the Martin Gardner version) is public domain at this point. Project Gutenberg has a PDF of it.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf


Ok, thank you. I did not realize this version was PD.


yes, I was looking for this book. Thank you. I wish I had read this when I was in school. I liked the book for explaining complex topic in a very simple, easily understandable way. This would be a great book to introduce calculus to your kids. I read chapter 2 (on different degrees of smallness) and found it enlightening.


You're welcome. Happy reading!


There's also a website if you don't like PDFs: http://calculusmadeeasy.org/


Probably not it, but this looks interesting: https://archive.org/details/calculus00marciala/page/n5


Maybe Apostol's Calculus, or Spivak's Calculus. Both 1967 though




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