Slide Rules

Slide Rules
Author: Peter M. Hopp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1999-05-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1493054430

In the hopes of "preserving these delightful devices for future generations," this collector of slide rules covers everything one could possibly want to know about this crude form of analog computer: from its invention in the 17th century to manufacturers- retailers, 1850-1998, and the Oughtred Society for collectors. Includes a glossary with biographies, patent data, component specs, dating and valuing, care, historical milestones, and illustrations

Slide Rule

Slide Rule
Author: Calvin Collier Bishop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1955
Genre: Slide rule
ISBN:

The Calculus Collection

The Calculus Collection
Author: Caren L. Diefenderfer
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2010-12-31
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470458373

The Calculus Collection is a useful resource for everyone who teaches calculus, in high school or in a 2- or 4-year college or university. It consists of 123 articles, selected by a panel of six veteran high school teachers, each of which was originally published in Math Horizons, MAA Focus, The American Mathematical Monthly, The College Mathematics Journal, or Mathematics Magazine. The articles focus on engaging students who are meeting the core ideas of calculus for the first time. The Calculus Collection is filled with insights, alternate explanations of difficult ideas, and suggestions for how to take a standard problem and open it up to the rich mathematical explorations available when you encourage students to dig a little deeper. Some of the articles reflect an enthusiasm for bringing calculators and computers into the classroom, while others consciously address themes from the calculus reform movement. But most of the articles are simply interesting and timeless explorations of the mathematics encountered in a first course in calculus.