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In reply to the discussion: How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today [View all]dalton99a
(81,485 posts)23. It is an excellent and well known textbook.
Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics and they are mostly clever fools seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way.
Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.
Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.
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How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today [View all]
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2022
OP
2 high tides every day: Theory of Gravity disproved! Flat earthers confused.
pirsquared
Jul 2022
#28
Old textbooks cost almost nothing and sometimes covered math from K-12 in one cheap book
lostnfound
Jul 2022
#6
K&R, Simple explanations from someone who understands the subject are usually the best !!
uponit7771
Jul 2022
#12
Would be outlawed in Florida. Why they even have a whole chapter called Integration!
retread
Jul 2022
#37