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Author Topic: Calculus lifesaver  (Read 4939 times)

Target

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Calculus lifesaver
« on: November 03, 2008, 05:03 PM »
this may be of interest/use (from <a href="http://shellcity.net/?foo=e">Shell Extension City</a> this morning)

The Calculus Lifesaver:
All the Tools You Need to Excel at Calculus
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Welcome to the video page for The Calculus Lifesaver. Here you can access streaming and downloadable videos of lectures given by the author, Adrian Banner. Most of the examples come from The Calculus Lifesaver.

<a href="http://press.princeton.edu/video/banner/">http://press.princeton.edu/video/banner/</a>

the page links to a series of video's of a series of lectures given by the author at Princeton in 06/07

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Re: Calculus lifesaver
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2008, 06:15 PM »
Cool, looks like it could be useful to me. I'll probably be (re)taking calculus next semester.

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Re: Calculus lifesaver
« Reply #2 on: November 17, 2008, 06:51 PM »
I watched the interview (introducing the book and videos) and part of the first lecture (2 hours long!).  Although I kept missing small bits of the audio in the first lecture, what I saw seemed pretty decent to me.  I'm especially interested in the author's coverage of the process of figuring out problems -- perhaps it will hint at Polya's "How to Solve It".

I noticed that the first chapter of the book can be downloaded from the book's website if you want to get a sense of the book first-hand -- though you can also see bits of it (in lower quality) via Amazon's "Look Inside".  The book is pretty big -- over 700 pages...

Thanks for sharing this, Target!