Interesting old Calculus book

Written with a sense of humor even!

http://djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf

I do think I wish I'd have had this one when I was taking calculus myself.

Published 1914, wow, that's pretty neat .

I'm just the kind of maths-idiot that book would've been perfect for.

The words "interesting" and "Calculus book" are seldom found in the same sentence.

I hope my calculus book from 1988 is burning in Hell.

Cool. 5th grade calculus from 1914. I just happen to have a 5th grader come september.

I had a math professor talk like this book is written.

It's nice to see that Calculus hasn't changed much.

Wow. Who knew that calculus was even invented then?

This book is finding its way onto my Kindle. I heart calculus. Also, I am an engineer/geek.

Thanks for my new signature.

I got the oldest calculus book ever once from the library:

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

neat stuff - old books like that are gems

Wow. What an amazing concept. "Rather than try to baffle students with a bunch of mathematical masturbation, lets simplify the concepts and make it easy."

I took Calculus for Dummies, I mean, Business Calculus. The teacher was fantastic. A total shiney happy person, but a great teacher. He taught a lot like this book. Granted, the 60 business students in the class really didn't want to be there, which had to give you a 'toode, but he could present the material so you (at lease I) could understand it.

Thanks for posting, FT.

Another way to pick up some calc:

Prof. E McSquared's Calculus Primer: Expanded Intergalactic Version