Title: A tour of the calculus /
Authors: Berlinski, David.
Publisher: Pantheon Books,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Calculus Popular works.
Abstract: The calculus represents humanity's great and profound meditation on the theme of continuity. In clear and instructive language David Berlinski explains the concept of limits, how a function describes a relationship between numbers, and the meaning of the real numbers and their role in the re-creation of the world. --From publisher description.
Contents: Masters of the symbols -- Symbols of the masters -- The black blossoms of geometry -- Cartesian coordinates -- The unbearable smoothness of motion -- Yo -- Thirteen ways of looking at a line -- The doctor of discovery -- Real world rising -- Forever familiar, forever unknown -- Some famous functions -- Speed of sorts -- Speed, strange speed -- Paris days -- Prague interlude -- Memory of motion -- The dimpled shoulder -- Wrong Way Rolle -- The mean value theorem -- The song of Igor -- Area -- Those Legos vanish -- The integral wishes to compute an area -- The integral wishes to become a function -- Between the living and the dead -- A farewell to continuity.