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Calculus Made Easy

Silvanus P. Thompson (1851 - 1916)

Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus is is a book on infinitesimal calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject. (from Wikipedia)

Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics—and they are mostly clever fools—seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way.

Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can. (from the Prologue)

Genre(s): Mathematics

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Preface to the Second Edition, Prologue	Adam	00:02:05
Play 01	Chapter I: To Deliver You from the Preliminary Terrors	Adam	00:02:36
Play 02	Chapter II: On Different Degrees of Smallness	Mike Pelton	00:11:07
Play 03	Chapter III: On Relative Growings	katetastrophe	00:17:26
Play 04	Chapter IV: Simplest Cases	katetastrophe	00:17:41
Play 05	Exercises I, Answers to Exercises I	Adam	00:04:01
Play 06	Chapter V: Next Stage. What to Do With Constants	Le	00:17:55
Play 07	Exercises II, Answers to Exercises II	Le	00:11:30
Play 08	Chapter VI: Sums, Differences, Products, and Quotients	Le	00:32:31
Play 09	Exercises III, Answers to Exercises III	Paul E J King	00:10:14
Play 10	Chapter VII: Successive Differentiation	Paul E J King	00:05:29
Play 11	Exercises IV, Answers to Exercises IV	Le	00:06:37
Play 12	Chapter VIII: When Time Varies - Part 1	Jargoniel	00:16:13
Play 13	Chapter VIII: When Time Varies - Part 2	Jargoniel	00:15:14
Play 14	Exercises V, Answers to Exercises V	Bruce Kachuk	00:06:25
Play 15	Chapter IX: Introducing a Useful Dodge	Bruce Kachuk	00:25:32
Play 16	Exercises VI and VII, Answers to Exercises VI and VII	Bruce Kachuk	00:11:12
Play 17	Chapter X: Geometrical Meaning of Differentiaton	realisticspeakers	00:16:27
Play 18	Exercises VIII, Answers to Exercises VIII	Le	00:05:45
Play 19	Chapter XI: Maxima and Minima - Part 1	clarinetcarrot	00:14:10
Play 20	Chapter XI: Maxima and Minima - Part 2	clarinetcarrot	00:17:14
Play 21	Exercises IX, Answers to Exercises IX	clarinetcarrot	00:05:43
Play 22	Chapter XII: Curvature of Curves	clarinetcarrot	00:13:50
Play 23	Exercises X, Answers to Exercises X	clarinetcarrot	00:07:15
Play 24	Chapter XIII: Other Useful Dodges - Part 1: Partial Fractions	clarinetcarrot	00:23:51
Play 25	Exercises XI, Answers to Exercises XI	clarinetcarrot	00:08:21
Play 26	Chapter XIII: Other Useful Dodges - Part 2: Differential of an Inverse Function	clarinetcarrot	00:05:23
Play 27	Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 1 (A)	Paul E J King	00:19:03
Play 28	Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 1 (B)	Paul E J King	00:27:45
Play 29	Exercises XII, Answers to Exercises XII	Paul E J King	00:06:56
Play 30	Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 2: The Logarithmic Curve	Le	00:02:48
Play 31	Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 3: The Die-away Curve	Le	00:21:56
Play 32	Exercises XIII, Answers to Exercises XIII	Le	00:08:15
Play 33	Chapter XV: How to Deal With Sines and Cosines - Part 1	Son of the Exiles	00:08:57
Play 34	Chapter XV: How to Deal With Sines and Cosines - Part 2: Second Differential Coefficient of Sine or Cosine	Ielmie	00:06:37
Play 35	Exercises XIV, Answers to Exercises XIV	Le	00:09:01
Play 36	Chapter XVI: Partial Differentiation - Part 1	clarinetcarrot	00:07:36
Play 37	Chapter XVI: Partial Differentiation - Part 2: Maxima and Minima of Functions of two Independent Variables	clarinetcarrot	00:04:33
Play 38	Exercises XV, Answers to Exercises XV	clarinetcarrot	00:06:45
Play 39	Chapter XVII: Integration - Part 1	Bruce Kachuk	00:05:09
Play 40	Chapter XVII: Integration - Part 2: Slopes of Curves, and the Curves themselves	Bruce Kachuk	00:06:43
Play 41	Exercises XVI, Answers to Exercises XVI	Bruce Kachuk	00:02:10
Play 42	Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 1	Bruce Kachuk	00:09:03
Play 43	Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 2: Integration of the Sum or Difference of two Functions	Bruce Kachuk	00:01:53
Play 44	Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 3: How to Deal With Constant Terms	Bruce Kachuk	00:09:10
Play 45	Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 4: Some Other Integrals	Bruce Kachuk	00:05:59
Play 46	Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 5: On Double and Triple Integrals	Bruce Kachuk	00:04:21
Play 47	Exercises XVII, Answers to Exercises XVII	Bruce Kachuk	00:06:36
Play 48	Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 1	Bruce Kachuk	00:23:42
Play 49	Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 2: Areas in Polar Coordinates	Bruce Kachuk	00:03:44
Play 50	Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 3: Volumes by Integration	Bruce Kachuk	00:03:44
Play 51	Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 4: On Quadratic Means	Bruce Kachuk	00:04:04
Play 52	Exercises XVIII, Answers to Exercises XVIII	clarinetcarrot	00:07:43
Play 53	Chapter XX: Dodges, Pitfalls, and Triumphs	clarinetcarrot	00:14:52
Play 54	Exercises XIX, Answers to Exercises XIX	clarinetcarrot	00:05:05
Play 55	Chapter XXI: Finding Some Solutions - Part 1	clarinetcarrot	00:15:00
Play 56	Chapter XXI: Finding Some Solutions - Part 2	clarinetcarrot	00:13:05
Play 57	Epilogue and Apologue	Rachel	00:03:25

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