Calculus made James Stewart a millionaire. Starting in the late 1970s, when the Canadian-born mathematician published his first calculus textbook, Stewart wrote over 30 bestselling calculus textbooks.
IN the second volume of his large treatise on the integral calculus, Mr. Edwards deals with multiple integrals, gamma functions, Dirichlet integrals, definite integrals in general, contour integration ...
THE author of this little book writes as if it were the first of its kind, and in encouraging his readers he continually jeers at the professional mathematician in whatmight be regarded as reckless ...
In the wake of James Stewart’s death on Dec. 3 at age 73, the Toronto mathematics professor is remembered as a philanthropist, a skilled violinist and former concertmaster, and as the owner of the ...
Calculus has a formidable reputation as being difficult and/or unpleasant, but it doesn’t have to be. Bringing humor and a sense of play to the topic can go a long way toward demystifying it. That’s ...