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David Bressoud, “Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas” (Princeton UP, 2019)
David Bressoud, “Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas” (Princeton UP, 2019)
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85 minutes
Released:
Aug 24, 2020
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Podcast episode
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Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas (Princeton UP, 2019) takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today. David Bressoud explains why calculus is credited to seventeenth-century figures Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz,...
Released:
Aug 24, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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