Post #4025411
2026-07-21 16:41 UTC
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@nxskok@cupoftea.social 2026-07-23 03:13
@darius@friend.camp there is also "Mathematician's Delight" by W W Sawyer, a good bit less whimsical than those, but leading the reader up to about differential calculus.
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@darius@friend.camp 2026-07-21 16:44
The author of Math for Smarty Pants went on to have a long career as a math educator, and is still doing the thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Burns_(mathematics_educator) Here's a short podcast episode and text transcript from her website describing her story as an educator: https://marilynburnsmath.com/math-podcasts/conversation-2-marilyns-math-story/
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@zwol@masto.hackers.town 2026-07-21 16:44
@darius@friend.camp I also read McSquared's Calculus Primer at about age 12. Sill the most lucid presentation of epsilon-delta proofs I have ever seen. (however, it spent *so much time* on continuity that it didn't really have enough space left over for differentials; when I got to Calculus A in high school we breezed past continuity in a couple weeks and spent months on what I'd thought was far less important)
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@ansate@social.coop 2026-07-23 02:17
@darius@friend.camp totally bought a copy from thriftbooks! thanks for letting me know it exists