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- Covers all of the topics traditionally taught in the first-year claculus sequence in a brief and elementary fashion
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics (UTM)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
"..Lang's present book is a source of interesting ideas and brilliant techniques." Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum
"..It is an admirable straightforward introduction to calculus." Mathematika
This is a reprint of A First Course in Calculus, which has gone through five editions since the early sixties. It covers all the topics traditionally taught in the first-year calculus sequence in a brief and elementary fashion. As sociological and educational conditions have evolved in various ways over the past four decades, it has been found worthwhile to make the original edition available again. The audience consists of those taking the first calculus course, in high school or college. The approach is the one which was successful decades ago, involving clarity, and adjusted to a time when the students' background was not as substantial as it might be. We are now back to those times, so its time to start over again.
There are no epsilons-delta, but this does not imply that the book is not rigorous. Lang learned this attitude from Emil Artin, around 1950.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"...Lang's present book is a source of interesting ideas and brilliant techniques."
Acta Scientarium Mathematicarum
"... It is an admirable straightforward introduction to calculus."
Mathematika
"A First Course in Calculus went through five editions since the early sixties. Now the original edition of A First Course in Calculus is available again. The approach is the one that was successful decades ago, involving clarity and adjusted to a time when the students’ background was not as substantial as it might have been. … The audience is intended to consist of those taking the first calculus course, in high school or college." (G. Kirlinger, Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten, Vol. 57 (193), 2003)
"This is a reprint of the original edition of Lang’s A first course in calculus, which was first published in 1964. … The treatment is ‘as rigorous as any mathematician would wish it’ … . There are quite a lot of exercises … they are refreshingly simply stated, without any extraneous verbiage, and at times quite challenging. … There are answers to all the exercises set and some supplementary problems on each topic to tax even the most able." (Gerry Leversha, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 86 (507), 2002)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Serge Lang
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Short Calculus
Book Subtitle: The Original Edition of “A First Course in Calculus”
Authors: Serge Lang
Series Title: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0077-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95327-4Published: 29 November 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-0077-9Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0172-6056
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5604
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 260
Topics: Real Functions