The internationally bestselling authors of The Cartoon Introduction
to Economics return to make calculus fun
The award-winning illustrator Grady Klein has teamed up once again with
the world's only stand-up economist, Yoram Bauman, Ph.D., to take on the
daunting subject of calculus. A supplement to traditional textbooks,
The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus focuses on the big ideas rather
than all the formulas you have to memorize.
With Klein and Bauman as our guides, we scale the dual peaks of Mount
Derivative and Mount Integral, and from their summits, we see how
calculus relates to the rest of mathematics. Beginning with the problems
of speed and area, Klein and Bauman show how the discipline is unified
by a fundamental theorem. We meet geniuses like Archimedes, Liu Hui, and
Bonaventura Cavalieri, who survived the slopes on intuition but prepared
us for the avalanche-like dangers posed by mathematical rigor. Then we
trek onward and scramble through limits and extreme values, optimization
and integration, and learn how calculus can be applied to economics,
physics, and so much more. We discover that calculus isn't the pinnacle
of mathematics after all, but its tools are foundational to everything
that follows. Klein and Bauman round out the book with a handy glossary
of symbols and terms, so you don't have to worry about mixing up
constants and constraints. With a witty and engaging narrative full of
jokes and insights, The Cartoon Introduction to Calculus is an
essential primer for students or for anyone who is curious about math.
