The cartoon guide to calculus /

Gonick, Larry.

The cartoon guide to calculus / Calculus Larry Gonick. - 1st ed. - New York : William Morrow, c2012. - x, 240 : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Initial conditions -- Speed, velocity, change -- Meet the functions -- Limits -- The derivative -- Chain, chain, chain -- Using derivatives, part 1 : related rates -- Using derivatives, part 2 : optimization -- Acting locally -- The mean value theorem -- Introducing integration -- Antiderivatives -- The definite integral -- Fundamentally -- Shape-shifting integrals -- Using integrals -- What's next?

Uses cartoons to discuss calculus, covering the basic ideas behind the field, functions, derivatives, integrals, and related topics.

9780061689093 (pbk.) 0061689092 (pbk.)

2011279176

GBB1C3425 bnb

015955144 Uk


Calculus--Caricatures and cartoons.
Calculus--Humor.

QA303.2 / .G664 2012

515.0207