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Author Hahn, Alexander, 1943-

Title Basic calculus : from Archimedes to Newton to its role in science / Alexander J. Hahn.

Imprint New York : Springer, c1998.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  515.09 H124b    ---  Available
Description xiv, 545 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Series Textbooks in mathematical sciences
Note Includes index.
Contents From Archimedes to Newton -- Greeks measure the universe -- Ptolemy and the dynamics of the universe -- Archimedes computes areas -- New astronomy and a new geometry -- Calculus of Leibniz -- Calculus of Newton -- Principia -- Calculus and the sciences -- Analysis of functions -- Connections with statics, dynamics, and optics -- Basic functions and their graphs -- Exponential function and the measurement of age and growth -- Calculus of economics -- Integral calculus : meaning and method -- Integral calculus and the action of forces.
Subject Calculus -- History.
ISBN 0387946063 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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