Table of Contents

Prologue To Deliver you from the Preliminary Terrors On Different Degrees of Smallness On Relative Growings Simplest Cases Next Stage: What to do with Constants Sums, Differences, Products and Quotients Successive Differentiation When Time Varies Introducing a Useful Dodge Geometrical Meaning of Differentiation Maxima and Minima Curvature of Curves Other Useful Dodges On True Compound Interest and the Law of Organic Growth How to Deal with Sines and Cosines Partial Differentiation Integration Integrating as the Reverse of Differentiating On Finding Areas by Integration Dodges, Pitfalls and Triumphs Finding Solutions A Little More about Curvature of Curves How to Find the Length of an Arc on a Curve Epilogue and Apologue.

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'Martin Gardner is one of the great intellects produced in this country.' - Douglas Hofstadter 'For more than half a century, Martin Gardner has been the single brightest beacon defending rationality and good science.' - Stephen Jay Gould

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SILVANUS P. THOMPSON (1851-1916) wrote several science manuals and biographies of major scientists. MARTIN GARDNER is a regular reviewer for the New York Review of Books. He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

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'Martin Gardner is one of the great intellects produced in this country.' - Douglas Hofstadter 'For more than half a century, Martin Gardner has been the single brightest beacon defending rationality and good science.' - Stephen Jay Gould