Calculus Made Easy: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Calculus Made Easy, credited to Silvanus P. Thompson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Calculus Made Easy: Being a Very-Simplest Introduction to Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning which Are Generally Called by the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus is is a book on infinitesimal calculus originally published in 1910 by Silvanus P. Thompson, considered a classic and elegant introduction to the subject. (from Wikipedia) 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. (from the Prologue)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Calculus Made Easy
• Author credits: Silvanus P. Thompson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 58
• Listed recording duration: 10:07:27

Catalogue topics

• mathematics
• textbook
• calculus
• infinitesimal calculus
• high school math

Opening tracks: first 24 of 58

1. 00 - Preface to the Second Edition, Prologue — 2:05
2. 01 - Chapter I: To Deliver You from the Preliminary Terrors — 2:36
3. 02 - Chapter II: On Different Degrees of Smallness — 11:07
4. 03 - Chapter III: On Relative Growings — 17:26
5. 04 - Chapter IV: Simplest Cases — 17:41
6. 05 - Exercises I, Answers to Exercises I — 4:01
7. 06 - Chapter V: Next Stage. What to Do With Constants — 17:55
8. 07 - Exercises II, Answers to Exercises II — 11:30
9. 08 - Chapter VI: Sums, Differences, Products, and Quotients — 32:31
10. 09 - Exercises III, Answers to Exercises III — 10:14
11. 10 - Chapter VII: Successive Differentiation — 5:29
12. 11 - Exercises IV, Answers to Exercises IV — 6:37
13. 12 - Chapter VIII: When Time Varies - Part 1 — 16:13
14. 13 - Chapter VIII: When Time Varies - Part 2 — 15:14
15. 14 - Exercises V, Answers to Exercises V — 6:25
16. 15 - Chapter IX: Introducing a Useful Dodge — 25:31
17. 16 - Exercises VI and VII, Answers to Exercises VI and VII — 11:12
18. 17 - Chapter X: Geometrical Meaning of Differentiaton — 16:27
19. 18 - Exercises VIII, Answers to Exercises VIII — 5:45
20. 19 - Chapter XI: Maxima and Minima - Part 1 — 14:10
21. 20 - Chapter XI: Maxima and Minima - Part 2 — 17:14
22. 21 - Exercises IX, Answers to Exercises IX — 5:43
23. 22 - Chapter XII: Curvature of Curves — 13:50
24. 23 - Exercises X, Answers to Exercises X — 7:15

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