calculus

A study guide for the Advanced Placement calculus AB exam that offers test-taking strategies from the experts, topic reviews, three full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations, and practice questions.

Contains a guide to understanding calculus and provides information on its origins, the definition of a limit and how to evaluate it numerically, and the relationship between functions and their derivatives.

Chronicles the twenty-year battle, public and private, between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over who invented calculus.

A study guide for the Advanced Placement calculus AB and BC exams that offers test-taking strategies from the experts, topic reviews, five full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations, and practice questions.

A study guide for the AP calculus AB and BC exams that offers test-taking strategies from the experts, topic reviews, five full-length practice tests with detailed answer explanations, and practice questions.

"The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it. On August 10, 1632, five leaders of the Society of Jesus convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden"--Provided by publisher.

A companion study guide to single-variable calculus textbooks, featuring subject reviews, nearly five hundred worked examples, in-depth coverage of difficult topics, and discussion of theorems and methods.

Explores the calculus behind everyday events, from the cooling of hot coffee to the timing of a subway car overhaul.