{"product_id":"9780419129103","title":"Calculator Calculus","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCalculator Calculus\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eMccarty, G.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow THIS BOOK DIFFERS This book is about the calculus. What distinguishes it, however, from other books is that it uses the pocket calculator to illustrate the theory. A computation that requires hours of labor when done by hand with tables is quite inappropriate as an example or exercise in a beginning calculus course. But that same computation can become a delicate illustration of the theory when the student does it in seconds on his calculator. t Furthermore, the student's own personal involvement and easy accomplishment give hi~ reassurance and en­ couragement. The machine is like a microscope, and its magnification is a hundred millionfold. We shall be interested in limits, and no stage of numerical approximation proves anything about the limit. However, the derivative of fex) = 67.SgX, for instance, acquires real meaning when a student first appreciates its values as numbers, as limits of 10 100 1000 t A quick example is 1.1 , 1.01 , 1.001 , •••• Another example is t = 0.1, 0.01, in the function e\/3t+9-3)\/t. ix difference quotients of numbers, rather than as values of a function that is itself the result of abstract manipulation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1982-10-21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780419129103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4684-6484-9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 216cm x140cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 256\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46546088296588,"sku":"9780419129103","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780419129103.jpg?v=1775789411","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780419129103","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}