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Making Calculus Easy and Interesting: New Book from Veteran Teacher Aims to Simplify Tricky Subject, Shares Its Remarkable History
Making Calculus Easy and Interesting: New Book from Veteran Teacher Aims to Simplify Tricky Subject, Shares Its Remarkable History
SLIDELL, La., May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite its name, "The Calculus
Primer" (published by AuthorHouse -- http://www.authorhouse.com), the new book
by Robert J. Madison, is not a textbook. Nevertheless, it is packed full of
useful and interesting information on a remarkable area of mathematics often
marred by labels of complexity and confusion. Madison's helpful primer offers
the origin and simplification of calculus' two vital processes:
differentiation and integration.
With eight years of teaching high school chemistry and physics, six years
of teaching college-level mathematics and 16 years of teaching college-level
computer science under his belt, Madison knows a thing or two about how to
effectively get a point across. Now retired, Madison draws upon his more than
three decades of teaching experience to present a book that can be appreciated
by anyone who has had or is preparing for a course in calculus.
"The Calculus Primer" delivers not only an easy-to-understand explanation
of differentiation and integration, but also an important history lesson on
the development of these processes.
"On the historical side," says Madison, "we must realize that calculus is
one of the greatest creations of the human mind."
The work ofEngland's Isaac Newton andGermany's Gottfried Leibniz, the
process of differentiation was designed to produce the instantaneous velocity
of a moving object. Madison asserts that his book will show readers how to
distinguish between the two velocities: average velocity and instantaneous
velocity. The process of integration was created by reversing the process of
differentiation. The process of finding the area under a curve, but above the
horizontal axis and within the limits on the horizontal axis was established
by the process of integration. These two processes were combined to produce
the fundamental theorem of calculus.
In addition to uncomplicated explanations of calculus' creation and
methods, "The Calculus Primer" also serves to answer the question, "How can I
actually use basic calculus?" Madison provides many simple examples of
real-world application.
Robert J. Madison holds a degree in science education from Southeastern
Louisiana University and a master's degree in mathematics from Southern
Mississippi University. "The Calculus Primer" is his first book.
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