Ανάλυση, τόμ. 1
Jon Rogawski, 2007
A calculus textbook, not a literary one: its best pages are small, self-contained curiosities about numbers, notation and the people who fixed them. A steady, curious read: definitions and worked examples move at textbook pace, with brief historical asides that feel almost lyrical.
Feels like curiosity. About ambition.
Who it’s for
You may like it if you want a calculus text that pauses on notation, number history, and the people behind familiar symbols. Be ready for a long, formal volume: the main text is dense with definitions and exercises, and the historical curiosities are brief side notes.
Why read it
It gives you the machinery of calculus alongside small stories about why symbols look the way they do, which can make the formal parts easier to remember.
A page from the book
Every graph you’ve ever drawn still carries one man’s handwriting.
Ο όρος «καρτεσιανό» αναφέρεται στον Γάλλο φιλόσοφο και μαθηματικό René Descartes (1596-1650) του οποίου το λατινικό όνομα ήταν Cartesius. Toυ πιστώνεται (μαζί με τον Pierre de Fermat) η ανακάλυψη της αναλυτικής γεωμετρίας. Στο σπουδαίο του έργο La Géométrie ο Descartes χρησιμοποίησε τα γράμματα x, y, z για αγνώστους και a, b, c για σταθερές, μια σύμβαση που ακολουθείται έως σήμερα. Jon Rogawski.Jon Rogawski taught mathematics at UCLA; his calculus textbook became one of the most widely assigned in American universities, and this Greek edition is a translation of it.
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- Is Ανάλυση, τόμ. 1 for me?
- You may like it if you want a calculus text that pauses on notation, number history, and the people behind familiar symbols. Be ready for a long, formal volume: the main text is dense with definitions and exercises, and the historical curiosities are brief side notes.
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- A steady, curious read: definitions and worked examples move at textbook pace, with brief historical asides that feel almost lyrical. Feels like curiosity. About ambition.
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