The Facts on File Calculus Handbook
The Facts on File Calculus Handbook
Maor, Eli
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Annotation: Presents the fundamentals of calculus to students in an easy and accessible format. An ideal primer for the subject.
Genre: [Mathematics]
 
Reviews: 2
Catalog Number: #3087876
Format: Library Binding
Common Core/STEAM: Common Core Common Core
Publisher: Facts On File
Copyright Date: 2003
Edition Date: 2003 Release Date: 06/01/03
Pages: xii, 164 pages
ISBN: 0-8160-4581-X
ISBN 13: 978-0-8160-4581-5
Dewey: 515
LCCN: 2003049027
Dimensions: 24 cm.
Subject Heading:
Calculus. Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Language: English
Reviews:
ALA Booklist (Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 CST 2003)

Designed for upper middle school, high school, and college students who are taking a single-variable calculus class, this volume contains a glossary, biographies, a time line, and charts and tables. It is a companion to The Facts On File Algebra Handbook and The Facts On File Geometry Handbook, both published earlier this year.

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Bibliography Index/Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-160) and index.
Reading Level: 8.0
Interest Level: 7-12
The Facts On File Calculus Handbook brings the fundamentals of calculus to students in an easy and accessible format. An ideal primer for the subject, this book takes all the basics of calculus and helps students understand and apply them in their work.
Topics include:
Absolute value
Binomial theorem
Derivative
Exponential growth
Greatest integer function
Implicit differentiation
Integration
Law of cosines
Linear function
Parabola
Polynomial functions
Second derivative
Velocity.
Biographies include:
Jakob Bernoulli
René Descartes
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
François Viète
John Wallis.
Tables, charts, and diagrams include:
Complementary and supplementary relations (angles in degrees)
Convergence tests for series
Derivatives
Indefinite integrals (antiderivatives)
Periodicity (angles in radians)
Pythagorean relations
Sum-to-product formulas
Values for special angles.
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Covering concepts, theorems and notable mathematicians, this comprehensive calculus primer covers such topics as absolute value; binomial theorem; implicit differentiation; polynomial functions; and the second derivative.

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