Overview
- Basic book on calculus
- Useful for researchers and students in applied sciences and intelligent systems
- Written by leading experts in the field
Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library (ISRL, volume 9)
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About this book
Another Calculus book? As long as students find calculus scary, the failure rate in mathematics is higher than in all other subjects, and as long as most people mistakenly believe that only geniuses can learn and understand mathematics, there will always be room for a new book of Calculus. We call it Calculus Light.
This book is designed for a one semester course in "light" calculus – mostly single variable, meant to be used by undergraduate students without a wide mathematical background and who do not major in mathematics but study subjects such as engineering, biology or management information systems.
The first chapter contains a historical background of calculus. Every scientific achievement involves people and therefore characterized by victories and disappointments, intrigues and hope. All of these elements exist in the story behind calculus and when you add the time dimension, starting 2400 years ago, it is a saga. We hope the reader enjoys reading this chapter as much as we enjoyed the writing.
In addition to classic calculus the book provides tools for practical applications such as Fourier series, Lagrange multipliers and elementary numerical methods.
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From the reviews:
“Friedman (Ben Gurion Univ. of the Niger, Israel) and Kandel (Univ. of South Florida) provide what most mathematics instructors would call an introduction to analysis of one real variable. … Concluding with special topics including Fourier series and numerical methods, this textbook would make for a very ambitious one-semester course. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates.” (D. S. Larson, Choice, Vol. 49 (5), January, 2012)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Calculus Light
Authors: Menahem Friedman, Abraham Kandel
Series Title: Intelligent Systems Reference Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17848-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-17847-4Published: 11 March 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43430-3Published: 11 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-17848-1Published: 08 March 2011
Series ISSN: 1868-4394
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 299
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Information and Communication, Circuits, Mathematical and Computational Engineering