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Calculus Made Easy

Silvanus P. Thompson

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)

Year of Publication: 1914Genres: Mathematics
Running Time: 10 hours 07 minutes 27 seconds
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1
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Preface to the Second Edition, Prologue
Adam
2:05
2
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Chapter I: To Deliver You from the Preliminary Terrors
Adam
2:36
3
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Chapter II: On Different Degrees of Smallness
Mike Pelton
11:07
4
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Chapter III: On Relative Growings
katetastrophe
17:26
5
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Chapter IV: Simplest Cases
katetastrophe
17:41
6
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Exercises I, Answers to Exercises I
Adam
4:01
7
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Chapter V: Next Stage. What to Do With Constants
Le
17:55
8
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Exercises II, Answers to Exercises II
Le
11:30
9
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Chapter VI: Sums, Differences, Products, and Quotients
Le
32:31
10
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Exercises III, Answers to Exercises III
Paul E J King
10:14
11
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Chapter VII: Successive Differentiation
Paul E J King
5:29
12
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Exercises IV, Answers to Exercises IV
Le
6:37
13
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Chapter VIII: When Time Varies - Part 1
Jargoniel
16:13
14
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Chapter VIII: When Time Varies - Part 2
Jargoniel
15:14
15
The Nights
Exercises V, Answers to Exercises V
Bruce Kachuk
6:25
16
The Nights
Chapter IX: Introducing a Useful Dodge
Bruce Kachuk
25:32
17
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Exercises VI and VII, Answers to Exercises VI and VII
Bruce Kachuk
11:12
18
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Chapter X: Geometrical Meaning of Differentiaton
realisticspeakers
16:27
19
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Exercises VIII, Answers to Exercises VIII
Le
5:45
20
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Chapter XI: Maxima and Minima - Part 1
clarinetcarrot
14:10
21
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Chapter XI: Maxima and Minima - Part 2
clarinetcarrot
17:14
22
The Nights
Exercises IX, Answers to Exercises IX
clarinetcarrot
5:43
23
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Chapter XII: Curvature of Curves
clarinetcarrot
13:50
24
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Exercises X, Answers to Exercises X
clarinetcarrot
7:15
25
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Chapter XIII: Other Useful Dodges - Part 1: Partial Fractions
clarinetcarrot
23:51
26
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Exercises XI, Answers to Exercises XI
clarinetcarrot
8:21
27
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Chapter XIII: Other Useful Dodges - Part 2: Differential of an Inverse Function
clarinetcarrot
5:23
28
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Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 1 (A)
Paul E J King
19:03
29
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Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 1 (B)
Paul E J King
27:45
30
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Exercises XII, Answers to Exercises XII
Paul E J King
6:56
31
The Nights
Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 2: The Logarithmic Curve
Le
2:48
32
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Chapter XIV: On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth - Part 3: The Die-away Curve
Le
21:56
33
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Exercises XIII, Answers to Exercises XIII
Le
8:15
34
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Chapter XV: How to Deal With Sines and Cosines - Part 1
Son of the Exiles
8:57
35
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Chapter XV: How to Deal With Sines and Cosines - Part 2: Second Differential Coefficient of Sine or Cosine
Ielmie
6:37
36
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Exercises XIV, Answers to Exercises XIV
Le
9:01
37
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Chapter XVI: Partial Differentiation - Part 1
clarinetcarrot
7:36
38
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Chapter XVI: Partial Differentiation - Part 2: Maxima and Minima of Functions of two Independent Variables
clarinetcarrot
4:33
39
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Exercises XV, Answers to Exercises XV
clarinetcarrot
6:45
40
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Chapter XVII: Integration - Part 1
Bruce Kachuk
5:09
41
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Chapter XVII: Integration - Part 2: Slopes of Curves, and the Curves themselves
Bruce Kachuk
6:43
42
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Exercises XVI, Answers to Exercises XVI
Bruce Kachuk
2:10
43
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Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 1
Bruce Kachuk
9:03
44
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Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 2: Integration of the Sum or Difference of two Functions
Bruce Kachuk
1:53
45
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Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 3: How to Deal With Constant Terms
Bruce Kachuk
9:10
46
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Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 4: Some Other Integrals
Bruce Kachuk
5:59
47
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Chapter XVIII: Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating - Part 5: On Double and Triple Integrals
Bruce Kachuk
4:21
48
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Exercises XVII, Answers to Exercises XVII
Bruce Kachuk
6:36
49
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Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 1
Bruce Kachuk
23:42
50
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Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 2: Areas in Polar Coordinates
Bruce Kachuk
3:44
51
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Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 3: Volumes by Integration
Bruce Kachuk
3:44
52
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Chapter XIX: On Finding Areas by Integrating - Part 4: On Quadratic Means
Bruce Kachuk
4:04
53
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Exercises XVIII, Answers to Exercises XVIII
clarinetcarrot
7:43
54
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Chapter XX: Dodges, Pitfalls, and Triumphs
clarinetcarrot
14:52
55
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Exercises XIX, Answers to Exercises XIX
clarinetcarrot
5:05
56
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Chapter XXI: Finding Some Solutions - Part 1
clarinetcarrot
15:00
57
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Chapter XXI: Finding Some Solutions - Part 2
clarinetcarrot
13:05
58
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Epilogue and Apologue
Rachel
3:25

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