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Why calculus cannot be made easy†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

R. L. E. Schwarzenberger
R. L. E. Schwarzenberger*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Education Research Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL
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Extract

Calculus made easy by “F.R.S.” was published seventy years ago. Its anonymous author wrote explicitly for engineering students rather than for future mathematics teachers. He ended by asking those who had enjoyed the book “not to give the author away nor to tell the mathematicians what a fool he really is”.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 64 , Issue 429 , October 1980 , pp. 158 - 166
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1980

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Footnotes

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This article is based on a lecture given at the Annual Conference of the Mathematical Association in Durham, April 1980.

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