Besides, nobody builds a stair that approaches zero length.True, but the concept of a tangent line to visualize a slope can be a useful notion. It's hard for people to wrap their head around an instantaneous slope.
Besides, nobody builds a stair that approaches zero length.True, but the concept of a tangent line to visualize a slope can be a useful notion. It's hard for people to wrap their head around an instantaneous slope.
Priceless, read a couple of chapters over the weekend, thank you so much for that absolute gem of a book. Should have its own link in the education section. Loved the prologue and his description of "d”Here is an ebook that explains all.
http://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/socratic/sinst/ebooks/Calculus_Made_Easy.pdf
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