The Calculus Story: A Mathematical Adventure Illustrated Edition

I really enjoyed this book because my thirst for knowledge about calculus and maths in general has grown over the past few years.But it wasn’t all easy readingI would recommend that you sit with a pen and writing pad and work out some of the ideas/equations as you go along and write Down your questions (for there are sure to be quite a few)I already have several more books lined up to read but I am happy this was one of the first I read.Background: I was first introduced to calculus in the late 90’s and have been teaching it for 9 years. However, we weren’t taught the history, development, or interesting applications. Probably because most of us would have been bored out of our skulls or most of the material might have gone WAY over our heads.I am hoping to make my teaching more interesting and this book has undoubtedly made me at least more curious and answered quite a few questions I didn’t even know I had 😄I hope you find this book as enjoyable and inspiring as I did or perhaps even more so.

This was an excellent review for someone who had calculus a long time ago, but still uses it occasionally . It would also be very good for someone who wants to understand the basic concepts of calculus either before or after taking a calculus course. But it doesn't replace a calculus course in applying calculus. I read it on a Kindle White Paper. DO NOT do that. Many of the equations were unreadable which is why I only gave it 4 stars. I reread it on a Kindle app on my tablet and that solved the display problems.

I majored in math as an undergraduate and am pretty opinionated on math education at secondary schools. I found this book very entertaining and introduces calculus (and Newton mechanics) in a very intuitive way from a historical perspective. I read the book together with my son, who is a 10th grader in high school, and he really enjoys it without knowing that some of the stuff is beyond AP Physics I.

This is a very short book about the calculus history. It is interesting. But, it is very superficial. I had no problem to understand it because I'm an engineer. However, I think it may be hard to understand to someone without any calculus background.

This book is a guided tour through the history of calculus. It is not designed to teach the reader calculus, but to illuminate it's development. The book is written in such a way that even without a background in calculus, much can be gleamed from the text. However, it is great as a supplement to someone who understands the basics of calculus or is in the process of learning calculus. For myself (good, but not great calculus student), I found it interesting to learn the story of how calculus came to be, but I find that I tend to understand the subject better, when I understand it's development in context. It definitely, deepened my understanding of the subject. Worth the read for anyone interest in mathematics or mathematics education.

Great combination of calculus and calculus history.

I need to start by saying this book is much shorter than it appears. A more appropriate name for it would be "The CliffsNotes Calculus Story". I am not a fast reader, a book with 180 pages normally takes me a month to read. I read this within three days. Each short chapter left me wanting more. However, I enjoyed the book as a brief refresh of calculus topics as well as a quick history lesson. As I read there were some aha moments. These were few in number but they made the book worth reading.

Decades ago I encountered calculus for the first time and found it difficult. I was a memorizer , and most of the work I did lacked an understanding of the principles. I have fretted about this for years. This book would have helped me then, and I'm so glad to have found it, even at this late date.