The cartoon guide to calculus
Title:
The cartoon guide to calculus
Author:
Gonick, Larry.
ISBN:
9780061689093
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : William Morrow, c2012.
Physical Description:
x, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Abstract:
Uses cartoons to discuss calculus, covering the basic ideas behind the field, functions, derivatives, integrals, and related topics.
Initial conditions -- Speed, velocity, change -- Meet the functions -- Limits -- The derivative -- Chain, chain, chain -- Using derivatives, part 1 : related rates -- Using derivatives, part 2 : optimization -- Acting locally -- The mean value theorem -- Introducing integration -- Antiderivatives -- The definite integral -- Fundamentally -- Shape-shifting integrals -- Using integrals -- What's next?
Subject:
| Calculus -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Calculus -- Humor. |
Summary:
Uses cartoons to discuss calculus, covering the basic ideas behind the field, functions, derivatives, integrals, and related topics.
Initial conditions -- Speed, velocity, change -- Meet the functions -- Limits -- The derivative -- Chain, chain, chain -- Using derivatives, part 1 : related rates -- Using derivatives, part 2 : optimization -- Acting locally -- The mean value theorem -- Introducing integration -- Antiderivatives -- The definite integral -- Fundamentally -- Shape-shifting integrals -- Using integrals -- What's next?