The calculus
Subtitle: a genetic approach
By: Otto Toeplitz ; new foreword by David Bressoud
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780226806693
Subjects: Calculus; Infinite Processes; Mathematics
Work titles: Entwicklung der Infinitesimalrechnung
Description: When first published posthumously in 1963, this book presented a radically different approach to the teaching of calculus.℗¡℗¡In sharp contrast to the methods of his time, Otto Toeplitz did not teach calculus as a static system of techniques and facts to be memorized. Instead, he drew on his knowledge of the history of mathematics and presented calculus as an organic evolution of ideas beginning with the discoveries of Greek scholars, such as Archimedes, Pythagoras, and Euclid, and developing through the centuries in the work of Kepler, Galileo, Fermat, Newton, and Leibniz. Through this unique a.
Notes: "Published in association with the Mathematical Association of America."

Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1963.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: FOREWORD; PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION; PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION; TABLE OF CONTENTS; I. THE NATURE OF THE INFINITE PROCESS; II. THE DEFINITE INTEGRAL; III. DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS; IV. APPLICATIONS TO PROBLEMS OF MOTION; EXERCISES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES; INDEX;