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- catalog abstract "The calculus represents humanity's great and profound meditation on the theme of continuity. In clear and instructive language David Berlinski explains the concept of limits, how a function describes a relationship between numbers, and the meaning of the real numbers and their role in the re-creation of the world. --From publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b9062838.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Masters of the symbols -- Symbols of the masters -- The black blossoms of geometry -- Cartesian coordinates -- The unbearable smoothness of motion -- Yo -- Thirteen ways of looking at a line -- The doctor of discovery -- Real world rising -- Forever familiar, forever unknown -- Some famous functions -- Speed of sorts -- Speed, strange speed -- Paris days -- Prague interlude -- Memory of motion -- The dimpled shoulder -- Wrong Way Rolle -- The mean value theorem -- The song of Igor -- Area -- Those Legos vanish -- The integral wishes to compute an area -- The integral wishes to become a function -- Between the living and the dead -- A farewell to continuity.".
- catalog description "The calculus represents humanity's great and profound meditation on the theme of continuity. In clear and instructive language David Berlinski explains the concept of limits, how a function describes a relationship between numbers, and the meaning of the real numbers and their role in the re-creation of the world. --From publisher description.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 331 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0679426450".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog subject "515 20".
- catalog subject "Calculus Popular works.".
- catalog subject "QA303 .B488 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Masters of the symbols -- Symbols of the masters -- The black blossoms of geometry -- Cartesian coordinates -- The unbearable smoothness of motion -- Yo -- Thirteen ways of looking at a line -- The doctor of discovery -- Real world rising -- Forever familiar, forever unknown -- Some famous functions -- Speed of sorts -- Speed, strange speed -- Paris days -- Prague interlude -- Memory of motion -- The dimpled shoulder -- Wrong Way Rolle -- The mean value theorem -- The song of Igor -- Area -- Those Legos vanish -- The integral wishes to compute an area -- The integral wishes to become a function -- Between the living and the dead -- A farewell to continuity.".
- catalog title "A tour of the calculus / David Berlinski.".
- catalog type "Popular works. fast".
- catalog type "text".