Re:Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
by c517402 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:17PM
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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.
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Re:Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
by ramblerman on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:51PM
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no that was Calculus for the practical man
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7398477-calculus-for-the-...
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
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Thanks for the correction, I didn't know that
I thought the book Feynman mentioned was Woods: Advanced Calculus: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/17dq5l/is_there_a_mod...