I found a "bed-time tales" version of Calculus recently and am thrilled why i did not read it while my school days or atleast in college. The book is titled " What Is Calculus About? " by Warwick Sawyer. http://www.amazon.com/What-Calculus-About-Mathematical-Library/dp/0883856026 Some quotes include: "Mathematicians tend to be uninterested in the engineering applications and ignorant of them. Engineers tend to be ignorant of mathematics since l900 ... I have looked through the 1962 volume of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) and in the first 350 pages of that, covering about 24 papers, I have tried to access the kind of mathematics being used . . . (Problems in Teaching Mathematics in Schools and Colleges and Universities.)" Another nice one about calculus goes like this "The basic problem of differential calculus is the following: we are given a rule for finding where an object is at any time, and are asked to find out how fast it
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