Bøger af Peter Saveliev

The basic science of sword-cutting is presented with the focus on the shape of the blade. It is followed by a comparison of possible shapes of blades.Contents1 Two straight blades ........ 32 The forces affecting the blade ........ 83 Swing without pull: comparison of blades ........ 144 Swing without pull: best shape ........ 185 The limits of swordsmanship ........ 246 Sword's agility ........ 297 Appendix: Memoir on Swords, 1860 ........ 338 Appendix: The math ........ 359 Appendix: How Excel is used ........ 38

This is the fourth volume of the series Calculus Illustrated, a textbook for undergraduate students.Mathematical thinking is often visual. The exposition in this book is driven by its 600 color illustrations. Another unique feature of this book is its study of incremental phenomena well in advance of their continuous counterparts. It is called "Discrete Calculus".

This is the third volume of the series Calculus Illustrated, a textbook for undergraduate students.Mathematical thinking is often visual. The exposition in this book is driven by its 600 color illustrations. Another unique feature of this book is its study of incremental phenomena well in advance of their continuous counterparts. It is called "Discrete Calculus".

Mathematical thinking is visual. The exposition in this book is driven by its illustrations; there are over 600 of them.Calculus is hard. Many students are too late to discover that they could have used a serious precalculus course. The book is intended for self-study and includes only the topics that are absolutely unavoidable.This is the first volume of the series Calculus Illustrated. The book's website hosts the drafts of volumes 2-5.

This is the second volume of the series Calculus Illustrated, a textbook for undergraduate students.Mathematical thinking is often visual. The exposition in this book is driven by its 600 color illustrations. Another unique feature of this book is its study of incremental phenomena well in advance of their continuous counterparts. It is called "Discrete Calculus".