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

Abstract

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 nursery language. In spite of such faults, we have no doubt that the book will be useful to schoolboys who need the ideas of the calculus in their study of physical science. The young engineer or the clever schoolboy will think it illogical and slipshod to leave (dx)2 out of consideration, as it is inconsiderable in comparison with the other terms of (x + dx)2, and he will say that there is only a pretence in the proof of the differentiation of xn; he will probably look upon the introduction of the expansion of (1 + i/n)n when n is indefinitely great, as not quite playing the nursery game.