
Автор: Eric Stade, Elisabeth Stade
Издательство: Springer
Серия: Synthesis Lectures on Mathematics & Statistics
Год: 2023
Страниц: 284
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 22.3 MB
This book is intended for a first-semester course in calculus, which begins by posing a question: how do we model an epidemic mathematically? The authors use this question as a natural motivation for the study of calculus and as a context through which central calculus notions can be understood intuitively. The book’s approach to calculus is contextual and based on the principle that calculus is motivated and elucidated by its relevance to the modeling of various natural phenomena. The authors also approach calculus from a computational perspective, explaining that many natural phenomena require analysis through computer methods. As such, the book also explores some basic programming notions and skills. And the programming, in turn, helps to elucidate the calculus. Here and throughout this text, we present code written in the mathematical programming language know as Sage (or Sagemath). Sage is available for free use and has a web interface, and is therefore accessible and easy to use in the classroom. Our Sage code here is quite similar to what it would look like in other mathematical programming languages, like Mathematica, MATLAB, and so on.