Differential and Integral Calculus, Volume I

Courant, R.

ISBN 10: 0471178209 / ISBN 13: 9780471178200

Published by Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York

About this Item

Hardcover 2nd Edition, 9th printing (1947) Volume 1 only in Good condition without a dust jacket. Published by Interscience Publishers, Inc. The covers show rubbing to the edges and some fraying to the spine ends, but are in overall good shape. The front hinge is beginning to crack. Foxing to edges of the text block. Small abrasion to the front flyleaf. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The book will be carefully packaged for shipment for protection from the elements. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Differential and Integral Calculus, Volume I
• Publisher: Interscience Publishers, Inc., New York
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471178209
• ISBN 13: 9780471178200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Printing: 9th Printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 8.7W x 6.1H x 1.25D inches 8.7 inches width by 6.1 inches height by 1.25 inches depth

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Synopsis

“This is the perfect solid-as-they-come, timeless book on the calculus, and most likely it will never be surpassed in this domain.” –Amazon Review

This book is intended for anyone who, having passed through an ordinary course of school mathematics, wishes to apply himself to the study of mathematics or its applications to science and engineering, no matter whether he is a student of a university or technical college, a teacher, or an engineer. Courant leads the way straight to useful knowledge, and aims at making the subject easier to grasp, not only by giving proofs step by step, but also by throwing light on the interconnections and purposes of the whole.

About the Author

This is one of the most important and influential books on calculus ever written. It has been reprinted more than twenty times and translated into several other languages, including Russian, and published in the Soviet Union and many other places. We especially want to thank Marvin Jay Greenberg, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Santa Cruz, for his Appendix on Infinitesimals, which includes recent discoveries on Hyperreals and Nilpotent Infinitesimals, and for his bibliography and references, which include up-to-date references to current publications in 2010. A professor of mathematics writes: "I've enjoyed with great pleasure your foreword, discovering many interesting things about Courant's life and his thoughts. In particular, your citations about the antithesis between intuition and rigor were very illuminating, because it corresponds to the methodological thread I'm trying to follow developing the theory of Fermat reals. "Infinitesimals without "mysticism", explicit or fogged into unclear logical methods, seems possible. Now, I think we can make a step further, because the rigor increases our possibility to understand." Richard Courant was born 8 Jan 1888 in what is now Germany and died on Jan 27, 1972 in New York.