Taking a break from the ... everything of everything ... to try my hand at an updated edition of *Calculus Made Easy*. Fortunately, there was a LaTeX transcription at @gutenberg_org, which I grabbed a while ago. (Their website has changed, so I'm no longer sure how to get the auxiliary files.) I've made one pass through for outdated terminology and notation:
https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2023/10/revising.pdf
Next will be updating the examples that use pounds-shillings-pence currency.
Blake C. Stacey
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in reply to Blake C. Stacey • • •The one thing in Thompson's presentation that I didn't particularly like is how he introduces derivatives of trig functions. It presumes that the reader has a lot of trig identities in their back pocket, and it makes a simplification that is hard to justify without going into limits, a topic that Thompson doesn't teach. I've tried my hand at a replacement that appeals to the way he *does* teach.
https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2023/10/revising.pdf
Blake C. Stacey
in reply to Blake C. Stacey • • •... Did a little more work on this:
https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2023/10/revising.pdf
Blake C. Stacey
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in reply to Blake C. Stacey • • •... Here is my de-archaized version of *Calculus Made Easy*, with the shillings and the obsolete names for things we now know to be polonium isotopes all fixed up:
https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2023/10/revising.pdf
And here is how the LaTeX stands at the moment:
https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2023/10/calculus-made-easy.tgz
Blake C. Stacey
in reply to Blake C. Stacey • • •Here is my summary blog post about my *Calculus Made Easy* project and where it stands now:
https://www.sunclipse.org/?p=3194
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