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Preface | MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus

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Herb Gross delivers the introductory lecture for his classic MIT course on single variable calculus, explaining his intuitive approach to the subject.

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4 people recommend this, 1 disputes it

What people say. Highly recommended by engineers as a course that makes calculus concepts finally click.

avinasshon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Calculus Made Easy (1910)”

This is amazing! The fonts are easy on eyes and page renders beautifully. If you are looking for vidoes, then check lectures by Herber Gross 0 on Youtube. These were recorded in 70s. They are in black & white, gives a feeling of watching some old beautifully shot movie. He goes into basics and gives you a taste of all derivations, by hand. Watch the first lecture by yourself 1 and you will immediately realise how good are these. On a similar note, any similar resources like the one submitted, but for Linear Algebra? I am aware of Gilbert Strang's book 2 and vidoes 3, but I find them advanced for a beginner. 0 - link 1 - link to this video 2 - link 3 - link

mtreis86on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?”

I recently learned calculus from the Herb Gross series from 1974. The way he explains things just clicked, after numerous failed attempts to learn from other sources. link to this video

lunchladydorison Hacker News • Recommends

On “Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]”

I just had a look at the first video in the first course on YouTube 0 and was delighted to see Herb Gross responding in the comments. Clearly this is a man who loves his subject and loves introducing it to others. 0 link to this video

jackdoeon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Death and What Comes Next (2002)”

…ss the Q&A videos) and it will for sure allow you to ask at least better questions. I love that cat so much. --- Sean Carroll: link Richard Feynman: link and link Leonard Susskind: link Ramamurti Shankar: link Barton Zwiebach: link Carl Bender: link If you struggle with calculus, I found Herb Gross to be partucularly good Herb Gross: link to this video Of course watch 3blue1brown, alphaphoenix, styropyro etc as well…

rofo1on Hacker News • Disputes

On “The Beauty of Calculus [video]”

link to this video There are many, many ways to study calculus, so take this as a preference. For example, this wouldn't be my first choice. In general, I find the "Definition. Axiom. Theorem." approach very dry and just doesn't fit reality. Nobody ever discovered mathematics like this. One of the best books I've read is Gausses "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae" rather than any modern Theory of Numbers book. I've had more insight in sums manipulations (and various little tricks, some of them not even justified in modern mathematics) from Euler's letters than any other book on this subject. I don't know what happened in the meantime. It sure doesn't look like 18/19 century books were so dry like the ones to…