THIS is a book written to supply the wants of students in advanced physics who require some knowledge of the calculus to enable them to read treatises on physical ...
James Stewart’s calculus text books made him very rich. He spent his fortune on Integral House, an award-winning architectural marvel inspired by calculus, which is now on sale after he died last year ...
In the wake of James Stewart’s death on Dec. 3 at age 73, the Toronto mathematics professor is remembered as a philanthropist, a skilled violinist and former concertmaster, and as the owner of the ...
THE author of this little book writes as if it were the first of its kind, and in encouraging his readers he continually jeers at the professional mathematician in whatmight be regarded as reckless ...
Calculus has a formidable reputation as being difficult and/or unpleasant, but it doesn’t have to be. Bringing humor and a sense of play to the topic can go a long way toward demystifying it. That’s ...