Visual Calculus
Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Visual Calculus by Mamikon Mnatsakanian is an approach to solving a variety of integral calculus problems. Many problems which would otherwise seem quite difficult yield to the method with hardly a line of calculation, what Martin Gardner calls "aha! solutions" or Roger Nelsen a proof without words. The method was devised by Mamikon in 1959 while a young undergraduate. It is based on the old puzzle: what is the area of a ring if the tangent to the inner circle is 6" long? With Mamikon's insight the solution becomes obvious—the area is the same as that swept by a tangent from the inner circle to the outer circle, and the tangents can all be translated parallel to themselves to make a smaller...
ISBN: 978-6-1311-9040-7
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Дата выхода: июль 2011