Calculus Made Easy and Memorable

by
Silvanus P. Thompson

What one fool can do, another can.

(Ancient Simian Proverb.)

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About this book

Calculus Made Easy is a book on calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject.

From Wikipedia

I read "Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus P. Thompson and it's still to this day my inspiration for explaining complex technical topics to lay people. It's a fantastic book, and even if you know math you must read it if you want to understand how to teach complexity to others. (source)

-- Zed Shaw
Author of Learn Code the Hard Way

Thompson creates a warm, inviting environment where students will learn and grasp the true essence of calculus without any added fluff or overt technicality. (source)

-- MathBlog

Most college calculus texts weigh a ton; this one does not — it just gets to the point. This is how I learned calculus: my uncle gave me a copy. (source)

-- John Baez
Mathematical physicist, author of n-Category Café



About this edition & thanks

This website is a clone of https://calculusmadeeasy.org/ but with memory aids from orbit added This text is based on the PDF version from Project Gutenberg converted to html by hand.

Thanks to Paula Appling, Don Bindner, Chris Curnow, Andrew D. Hwang and Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team for preparing the original PDF.

The theme is borrowed from Dive Into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim released under the CC-BY-3.0 license.

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