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Re:Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] by c517402 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:17PM (#14162847)
IIRC this the book Richard Feynman said he checked out of the library and learned calculus from. Also, Feynman made comments similar to those in the Prologue.
Re:Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] by ramblerman on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:51PM (#14162984)
no that was Calculus for the practical man

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7398477-calculus-for-the-...

Re:Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] by madrik on Friday April 21, 2017 @02:51AM (#14163578)
Feynman had read both books. He mentioned the prefatory quote from 'Calculus Made Easy' in an interview given to Omni Magazine in 1979:

"... I had a calculus book once that said, 'What one fool can do, another can'..."

I have this in Chapter 9: 'The Smartest Man in the World' in Feynman's book 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out'.

Re:Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] by ramblerman on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:08AM (#14163840)
Thanks for the correction, I didn't know that
Re:Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] by amai on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:07AM (#14165182)
I thought the book Feynman mentioned was Woods: Advanced Calculus: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/17dq5l/is_there_a_mod...
Re:Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf] by metaphor on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:18PM (#14169065)
IIRC, Feynman mentioned Woods in the context of differentiation under the integral sign, whereas J.E. Thompson was in the context of learning Calculus as a kid.