an old math book much easier to read than new ones

RadioRon · Jan 28, 2008

I have an old book called Calculus Made Easy, written by Silvanus P. Thompson. It is an entertaining book because of the style. The attached images might give you an idea of what I mean. This book was written in 1910. I recommend this book to others, if you can find one.

Leftyretro · Jan 28, 2008

RadioRon said:
I have an old book called Calculus Made Easy, written by Silvanus P. Thompson. It is an entertaining book because of the style. The attached images might give you an idea of what I mean. This book was written in 1910. I recommend this book to others, if you can find one.

Seems to be avalible from several sources:

https://books.google.com/books?id=BBIFtid-WdUC

Lefty

RadioRon · Jan 28, 2008

This is what comes from making assumptions. Since my copy is ancient, I assumed it was long out of print and unknown. Imagine my surprise when after I posted above, I checked on Abebooks and found out the thing has been in reprints for almost a century! I guess others found it as useful as I do.

kchriste · Jan 28, 2008

That's pretty humorous. His style reminds me of the "Flashman" novels.

stickpin · Jan 29, 2008

Brilliant, this is exactly what i'm looking for at the moment!

im ordering this now

cheers for sharing

RadioRon · Jan 30, 2008

stickpin said:
Brilliant, this is exactly what i'm looking for at the moment!

im ordering this now

cheers for sharing

I hope the newer editions maintained that old style and old language. That's the best part.

Papabravo · Jan 30, 2008

Yes they did! One of the updated editions was edited by Martin Gardner of Scientific American fame.
He added three introductory chapters, and added some material on elliptic integrals IIRC. It's ten years old now, and well worth the price.

https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Mad...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1201741137&sr=1-1
ISBN 0-312-18548-0

Used for $ 8.00 Whada deal!

Torben · Feb 9, 2008

Wow. I just had one of those moments where I realized I need something very badly, when 10 minutes ago I didn't know it existed.

Thanks for the tip! I'll be ordering this one for sure.

Torben

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