Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas

by David M. Bressoud

Book Overview

A look at how calculus has evolved over hundreds of years and why calculus pedagogy needs to change

Calculus Reordered tells the remarkable story of how calculus grew over centuries into the subject we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, how it was shaped by Italian philosophers such as Galileo Galilei, and how its current structure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691218781
• ISBN13: 9780691218786
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"