Calculus for dummies - Mark Ryan

Learn to:

• Master differentiation and integration


• Use the calculus microscope: limits


• Analyze common functions


• Score your highest in Calculus

Slay the calculus monster with this user–friendly guide

This hands–on, friendly guide makes calculus manageable
even if it makes you sweat! It leads you step–by–step through each concept, operation, and solution, explaining the
how
and
why
in plain English. Through detailed instruction and practical examples, you
ll soon learn that real–life calculus isn
t nearly the monster it
s made out to be!

• A quick overview of calculus
  get an easy–to–follow introduction to calculus and make sense of the two big ideas of the subject: differentiation and integration


• Power through the prerequisites
  warm up to calculus with reviews of pre–algebra and algebra, geometry, functions and their graphs, and trigonometry


• The sky
  s the limit
  find the lowdown on limits and continuity and take a stab at evaluating limits


• Go off on a tangent
  discover the deal with differentiation orientation, differentiation rules, differentiation and the shape of curves, and differentiation problems


• To infinity and back
  get a handle on integration and infinite series, from using the integral to solve problems to taming the infinite with improper integrals

Open the book and find:

• Easily digestible explanations of key calculus concepts


• The rules, definitions, and formulas you need to know


• Clever shortcuts and real–world examples


• Why calculus works


• The logic underlying the calculus ideas


• How to use differentiation to solve problems


• Integration techniques and how to approximate area


• Ten calculus tips to remember