What is calculus?: Learn the basic concepts (without the hard math) - Paperback

by Chris McMullen (Author)

Are you curious about what calculus is? Maybe you never made it past algebra but would like discover the basic concepts of calculus. Or maybe you took a calculus course once and would like to better understand the main ideas. Either way, experienced teacher and author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., will show you the wonders of calculus, including:

• the meaning of derivatives and integrals
• a few important precalculus concepts, like functions and limits
• why calculus was developed
• applications of calculus
• extreme values and optimization problems
• sequences and series
• and more