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Foundations of Differential Calculus

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While Newton (arguably) founded the subject, Euler (pronounced 'oiler') developed all the methods used today in Differential Calculus. Not only was Leonhard Euler the greatest Mathematician of his day (he actually wrote over a quarter of the tracts from the 18th century!), but he wrote in a humbling and readable manner such that anyone with a foundation may approach his proofs. And this text is no different; simply a book any mathematician should own. Truly one of the milestones of Calculus.

I was disappointed when I opened the box to find a skinny hardcover 6" by 8" book. I was expecting a full blown thick textbook for the price of $60. This is more of a novelty item for those of you who wish to find out how the theory of differentiation started from scratch. The book has the first steps and analysis that lead to the power rule etc. There is lot of useful information but the notations are a bit a different. This is not a text book with problems and solution. There are examples but these examples are nothing like you'd find in a calculus class. I think this book should be sold for $25 tops. Another thing is that when Euler wrote this book, it had 23 chapters, this is only the first 9 chapters so it leaves you shy of the whole picture. There is about 15 pages on solving Linear Differential equations. I have not read the book word per word yet. So for the intelligent ones, there may be more information they could harvest out of this book. This book is definitely over priced!