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Loading... Calculus Refresher (Dover Books on Mathematics)by A. A. Klaf
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   laplantelibrary | Jul 7, 2022 |  The book starts out slow with talking about what variables are. Eventually, by a method of questions and answers, it gets through one or two semesters of Calculus. The book is not intended to be your first introduction to Calculus. This is made clear in the preface. The author’s intent was that if you need to brush up on your skills, you could use this book as a quick refresher. While the book does go and discuss a lot of ideas in Calculus it does not dig too deep into each section. Calculus Refresher for Technical People begins as most books on Calculus do with Derivatives and Differentiation. It takes this section all the way up to the Curvature of Curves and Partial Differentiation. The second section of the book covers Integration. The book contains the Integration Tables you need in the Integration Section. The third section talks about Differential Equations but doesn’t foray too far into it. The final section of the book is made up of two appendices and an index. The first appendix is a section that contains answers to the problems in the book. The second appendix contains Useful Formulas, Notations, and Tables. The book was written during a time when people had to use tables of known values and stuff like that. I don’t know if the Slide Rule was in vogue back in the 1940s since I am not really a math historian or anything. The book is quite informative. The pacing and the format are quite snappy and it makes for a quick read unless you want to do any of the problems in the book. (  ) Floyd3345 | Sep 19, 2019 | no reviews | add a review
This book is unique in English as a refresher for engineers, technicians, and students who either wish to brush up their calculus or find parts of calculus unclear. It is not an ordinary textbook. It is, instead, an examination of the most important aspects of integral and differential calculus in terms of the 756 questions most likely to occur to the technical reader. It provides a very easily followed presentation and may also be used as either an introductory or supplementary textbook. The first part of this book covers simple differential calculus, with constants, variables, functions, increments, derivatives, differentiation, logarithms, curvature of curves, and similar topics. The second part covers fundamental ideas of integration (inspection, substitution, transformation, reduction) areas and volumes, mean value, successive and partial integration, double and triple integration. In all cases the author stresses practical aspects rather than theoretical, and builds upon such situations as might occur. A 50-page section illustrates the application of calculus to specific problems of civil and nautical engineering, electricity, stress and strain, elasticity, industrial engineering, and similar fields. 756 questions answered. 566 problems to measure your knowledge and improvement; answers. 36 pages of useful constants, formulae for ready reference. Index. No library descriptions found. |
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