Cameos for Calculus: Visualization in the First-Year Course (Classroom Resource Materials) - Hardcover

Nelsen, Roger B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 088385788X ISBN 13: 9780883857885

Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America, 2016

Synopsis

Designed to aid teachers and students, Nelsen guides his readers through fifty short visual enhancements to the first-year calculus course.

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About the Author

Roger B. Nelsen received his BA in Mathematics from DePauw University, Indiana, in 1964, and his PhD in Mathematics from Duke University, North Carolina, in 1969. Nelsen was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, and taught mathematics and statistics at Lewis and Clark College, Oregon, for forty years before his retirement in 2009. His previous books include Proofs Without Words (1993), An Introduction to Copulas (1999, 2nd edition 2006), Proofs Without Words II, (2000), Math Made Visual (with Claudi Alsina, 2006), When Less Is More (with Claudi Alsina, 2009), Charming Proofs (with Claudi Alsina, 2010), The Calculus Collection (with Caren Diefenderfer, 2010), Icons of Mathematics (with Claudi Alsina, 2011), College Calculus (with Michael Boardman, 2015) and A Mathematical Space Odyssey (with Claudi Alsina, 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088385788X
• ISBN 13: 9780883857885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 180