Calculus from approximation to theory
Calculus from Approximation to Theory takes a fresh and innovative look at the teaching and learning of calculus. One way to describe calculus might be to say it is a suite of techniques that approximate curved things by flat things and through a limiting process applied to those approximations arrive at an exact answer. Standard approaches to calculus focus on that limiting process as the heart of the matter. This text places its emphasis on the approximating processes and thus illuminates the…
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- Full title :Calculus from approximation to theory / Dan Sloughter.
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Calculus from Approximation to Theory takes a fresh and innovative look at the teaching and learning of calculus. One way to describe calculus might be to say it is a suite of techniques that approximate curved things by flat things and through a limiting process applied to those approximations arrive at an exact answer. Standard approaches to calculus focus on that limiting process as the heart of the matter. This text places its emphasis on the approximating processes and thus illuminates the motivating ideas and makes clearer the scientific usefulness, indeed centrality, of the subject while paying careful attention to the theoretical foundations.
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- Publication Date:©2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):MAA Press, an imprint of the American Mathematical Society
- Place of Publication:Providence, Rhode Island
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2020
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 571 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781470463052, 1470463059
- oclc:on1227994976
- LC Classification:QA300
- Dewey Decimal:515
Table of Contents
Sequences and limits -- Functions and their properties -- Derivations and best affine approximations -- Integrals -- TayLor polynomials and series -- More transcendental functions -- The complex plane -- Differential equations.
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