More than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway into higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from the work of some of its foremost practitioners, beginning with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the late seventeenth century and continuing to Henri Lebesgue at the d...(展开全部)

Noriko is just getting started as a junior reporter for the Asagake Times. She wants to cover the hard-hitting issues, like world affairs and politics, but does she have the smarts for it? Thankfully, her overbearing and math-minded boss, Mr. Seki, is here to teach her how to analyze her stories with a mathematical eye. In The Manga Guide to Calculus, you'll follow along with N...(展开全部)

For many students, calculus can be the most mystifying and frustrating course they will ever take. The Calculus Lifesaver provides students with the essential tools they need not only to learn calculus, but to excel at it. All of the material in this user-friendly study guide has been proven to get results. The book arose from Adrian Banner's popular calculus review course at P...(展开全部)

爱德华·扬·戴克斯特豪斯，著名荷兰科学史家，曾任乌特勒支大学和莱顿大学精密科学史教授，1952年当选荷兰皇家科学院院士，1962年获得科学史研究的最高奖萨顿奖章。其代表作有《世界图景的机械化》、《下落与抛射：从亚里士多德到牛顿的力学史研究》、《阿基米德》、《西蒙•斯台文》等。

"Second Year Calculus: From Celestial Mechanics to Special Relativity" covers multi-variable and vector calculus, emphasizing the historical physical problems which gave rise to the concepts of calculus.The book carries us from the birth of the mechanized view of the world in Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy in which mathematics becomes the ultimate ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that...(展开全部)

托马斯·利文森（Thomas Levenson），美国学者、科学作家、纪录片制片人，曾获艾美奖（Emmy Award）和皮博迪奖（Peabody Award）。除本书外，还有如下四部著作出版：《爱因斯坦在柏林》《针锋相对：乐器的科学史》《冰河时代：地球的气候、科学与生命》《寻找火神：爱因斯坦如何颠覆地球，发现相对论，解密宇宙》。现与妻儿同居于波士顿郊外。

托马斯·利文森（Thomas Levenson），美国学者、科学作家、纪录片制片人，曾获艾美奖（Emmy Award）和皮博迪奖（Peabody Award）。除本书外，还有如下四部著作出版：《爱因斯坦在柏林》《针锋相对：乐器的科学史》《冰河时代：地球的气候、科学与生命》《寻找火神：爱因斯坦如何颠覆地球，发现相对论，解密宇宙》。现与妻儿同居于波士顿郊外。

Gallery of the Infinite is a mathematician's unique view of the infinitely many sizes of infinity. Written in a playful yet informative style, it introduces important concepts from set theory (including the Cantor Diagonalization Method and the Cantor-Bernstein Theorem) using colorful pictures, with little text and almost no formulas. It requires no specialized background and i...(展开全部)