{"product_id":"calculator-calculus-9780419129103","title":"Calculator Calculus","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): G. McCarty\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow THIS BOOK DIFFERS This book is about the calculus. What distinguishes it, however, from other books is that it uses the pocket calculator to illustrate the theory. A computation that requires hours of labor when done by hand with tables is quite inappropriate as an example or exercise in a beginning calculus course. But that same computation can become a delicate illustration of the theory when the student does it in seconds on his calculator. t Furthermore, the student's own personal involvement and easy accomplishment give hi reassurance and en- couragement. The machine is like a microscope, and its magnification is a hundred millionfold. We shall be interested in limits, and no stage of numerical approximation proves anything about the limit. However, the derivative of fex) = 67.SgX, for instance, acquires real meaning when a student first appreciates its values as numbers, as limits of 10 100 1000 t A quick example is 1.1, 1.01, 1.001, ---- Another example is t = 0.1, 0.01, in the function e\/3t+9-3)\/t. ix difference quotients of numbers, rather than as values of a function that is itself the result of abstract manipulation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45281293795479,"sku":"9780419129103","price":7345.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780419129103.webp?v=1769298807","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/calculator-calculus-9780419129103","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}