An Elementary Course of Infinitesimal Calculus

The final edition (1934) of Lamb's textbook on infinitesimal calculus, with examples.

Horace Lamb (Author)

9781108005340, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

552 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm, 0.69 kg

Sir Horace Lamb (1849–1934) the British mathematician, wrote a number of influential works in classical physics. A pupil of Stokes and Clerk Maxwell, he taught for ten years as the first professor of mathematics at the University of Adelaide before returning to Britain to take up the post of professor of physics at the Victoria University of Manchester (where he had first studied mathematics at Owens College). As a teacher and writer his stated aim was clarity: 'somehow to make these dry bones live'. The first edition of this work was published in 1897, the third revised edition in 1919, and a further corrected version just before his death. This edition, reissued here, remained in print until the 1950s. As with Lamb's other textbooks, each section is followed by examples.

Preface
1. Continuity
2. Derived functions
3. The exponential and logarithmic functions
4. Applications of the derived function
5. Derivatives of higher orders
6. Integration
7. Definite integrals
8. Geometrical applications
9. Special curves
10. Curvature
11. Differential equations of the first order
12. Differential equations of the second order
13. Linear equations with constant coefficients
14. Differentiation and integration of power-series
15. Taylor's theorem
16. Functions of several independent variables
Appendix
Index.

Subject Areas: Probability & statistics [PBT]