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== Table of Contents == {| class="wikitable" |- ! Chapter/Section # !! Title !! Page # |- ! colspan="3" | I. INTRODUCTION |- ! colspan="3" | Part 1: Historical Introduction |- | I 1.1 || The two basic concepts of calculus || 1 |- | I 1.2 || Historical background || 2 |- | I 1.3 || The method of exhaustion for the area of a parabolic segment || 3 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>I 1.4 || Exercises || 8 |- | I 1.5 || A critical analysis of the Archimedes' method || 8 |- | I 1.6 || The approach to calculus to be used in this book || 10 |- ! colspan="3" | Part 2: Some Basic Concepts of the Theory of Sets |- | I 2.1 || Introduction to set theory || 11 |- | I 2.2 || Notations for designating sets || 12 |- | I 2.3 || Subsets || 12 |- | I 2.4 || Unions, intersections, complements || 13 |- | I 2.5 || Exercises || 15 |- ! colspan="3" | Part 3: A set of Axioms for the Real-Number System |- | I 3.1 || Introduction || 17 |- | I 3.2 || The field axioms || 17 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>I 3.3 || Exercises || 19 |- | I 3.4 || The order axioms || 19 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>I 3.5 || Exercises || 21 |- | I 3.6 || Integers and rational numbers || 21 |- | I 3.7 || Geometric interpretation of real numbers as points on a line || 22 |- | I 3.8 || Upper bound of a set, maximum element, least upper bound (supremum) || 23 |- | I 3.9 || The least-Upper-bound axiom (completeness axiom) || 25 |- | I 3.10 || The Archimedean property of the real-number system || 25 |- | I 3.11 || Fundamental properties of the supremum and infimum || 26 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>I 3.12 || Exercises || 28 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>I 3.13 || Existence of square roots of nonnegative real numbers || 29 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>I 3.14 || Roots of higher order. Rational powers || 30 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>I 3.15 || Representation of real numbers by decimals || 30 |- ! colspan="3" | Part 4: Mathematical Induction, Summation Notation, and Related Topics |- | I 4.1 || An example of a proof by mathematical induction || 32 |- | I 4.2 || The principle of mathematical induction || 34 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>I 4.3 || The well-ordering principle || 34 |- | I 4.4 || Exercises || 35 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>I 4.5 || Proof of the well-ordering principle || 37 |- | I 4.6 || The summation notation || 37 |- | I 4.7 || Exercises || 39 |- | I 4.8 || Absolute values and the triangle inequality || 41 |- | I 4.9 || Exercises || 43 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>I 4.10 || Miscellaneous exercises involving induction || 44 |- ! colspan="3" | 1. THE CONCEPTS OF INTEGRAL CALCULUS |- | 1.1 || The basic ideas of Cartesian geometry || 48 |- | 1.2 || Functions. Informal description and examples || 50 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>1.3 || Functions. Formal definition as a set of ordered pairs || 53 |- | 1.4 || More examples of real functions || 54 |- | 1.5 || Exercises || 56 |- | 1.6 || The concept of area as a set function || 57 |- | 1.7 || Exercises || 60 |- | 1.8 || Intervals and ordinate sets || 60 |- | 1.9 || Partitions and step functions || 61 |- | 1.10 || Sum and product of step functions || 63 |- | 1.11 || Exercises || 63 |- | 1.12 || The definition of the integral for step functions || 64 |- | 1.13 || Properties of the integral of a step function || 66 |- | 1.14 || Other notations for integrals || 69 |- | 1.15 || Exercises || 70 |- | 1.16 || The integral of more general functions || 72 |- | 1.17 || Upper and lower integrals || 74 |- | 1.18 || The area of an ordinate set expressed as an integral || 75 |- | 1.19 || Informal remarks on the theory and technique of integration || 75 |- | 1.20 || Monotonic and piecewise monotonic functions. Definitions and examples || 76 |- | 1.21 || Integrability of bounded monotonic functions || 77 |- | 1.22 || Calculation of the integral of a bounded monotonic function || 79 |- | 1.23 || Calculation of the integral <math>\int_0^b x^p dx</math> when <math>p</math> is a positive integer || 79 |- | 1.24 || The basic properties of the integral || 80 |- | 1.25 || Integration of polynomials || 81 |- | 1.26 || Exercises || 83 |- | 1.27 || Proofs of the basic properties of the integral || 84 |- ! colspan="3" | 2. SOME APPLICATIONS OF INTEGRATION |- | 2.1 || Introduction || 88 |- | 2.2 || The area of a region between two graphs expressed as an integral || 88 |- | 2.3 || Worked examples || 89 |- | 2.4 || Exercises || 94 |- | 2.5 || The trigonometric functions || 94 |- | 2.6 || Integration formulas for the sine and cosine || 94 |- | 2.7 || A geometric description of the sine and cosine functions || 94 |- | 2.8 || Exercises || 94 |- | 2.9 || Polar coordinates || 94 |- | 2.10 || The integral for area in polar coordinates || 94 |- | 2.11 || Exercises || 94 |- | 2.12 || Application of integration to the calculation of volume || 94 |- | 2.13 || Exercises || 94 |- | 2.14 || Application of integration to the calculation of work || 94 |- | 2.15 || Exercises || 94 |- | 2.16 || Average value of a function || 94 |- | 2.17 || Exercises || 94 |- | 2.18 || The integral as a function of the upper limit. Indefinite integrals || 94 |- | 2.19 || Exercises || 94 |- ! colspan="3" | 3. CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS |- | 3.1 || Informal description of continuity || 126 |- | 3.2 || The definition of the limit of a function || 127 |- | 3.3 || The definition of continuity of a function || 130 |- | 3.4 || The basic limit theorems. More examples of continuous functions || 131 |- | 3.5 || Proofs of the basic limit theorems || 135 |- | 3.6 || Exercises || 138 |- | 3.7 || Composite functions and continuity || 140 |- | 3.8 || Exercises || 142 |- | 3.9 || Bolzano's theorem for continuous functions || 142 |- | 3.10 || The intermediate-value theorem for continuous functions || 144 |- | 3.11 || Exercises || 145 |- | 3.12 || The process of inversion || 146 |- | 3.13 || Properties of functions preserved by inversion || 147 |- | 3.14 || Inverses of piecewise monotonic functions || 148 |- | 3.15 || Exercises || 149 |- | 3.16 || The extreme-value theorem for continuous functions || 150 |- | 3.17 || The small-span theorem for continuous functions (uniform continuity) || 152 |- | 3.18 || The integrability theorem for continuous functions || 152 |- | 3.19 || Mean-value theorems for integrals of continuous functions || 154 |- | 3.20 || Exercises || 155 |- ! colspan="3" | 4. DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS |- | 4.1 || Historical introduction || 156 |- | 4.2 || A problem involving velocity || 157 |- | 4.3 || The derivative of a function || 159 |- | 4.4 || Examples of derivatives || 161 |- | 4.5 || The algebra of derivatives || 164 |- | 4.6 || Exercises || 167 |- | 4.7 || Geometric interpretation of the derivative as a slope || 169 |- | 4.8 || Other notations for derivatives || 171 |- | 4.9 || Exercises || 173 |- | 4.10 || The chain rule for differentiating composite functions || 174 |- | 4.11 || Applications of the chain rule. Related rates and implicit differentiation || 176 |- | 4.12 || Exercises || 179 |- | 4.13 || Applications of the differentiation to extreme values of cuntions|| 181 |- | 4.14 || The mean-value theorem for derivatives || 183 |- | 4.15 || Exercises || 186 |- | 4.16 || Applications of the mean-value theorem to geometric properties of functions || 187 |- | 4.17 || Second-derivative test for extrema || 188 |- | 4.18 || Curve sketching || 189 |- | 4.19 || Exercises || 191 |- | 4.20 || Worked examples of extremum problems || 191 |- | 4.21 || Exercises || 194 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>4.22 || Partial derivatives || 196 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>4.23 || Exercises || 201 |- ! colspan="3" | 5. THE RELATION BETWEEN INTEGRATION AND DIFFERENTIATION |- | 5.1 || The derivative of an indefinite integral. The first fundamental theorem of calculus || 202 |- | 5.2 || The zero-derivative theorem || 204 |- | 5.3 || Primitive functions and the second fundamental theorem of calculus || 205 |- | 5.4 || Properties of a function deduced from properties of its derivative || 207 |- | 5.5 || Exercises || 208 |- | 5.6 || The Leibniz notation for primitives || 210 |- | 5.7 || Integration by substitution || 212 |- | 5.8 || Exercises || 216 |- | 5.9 || Integration by parts || 217 |- | 5.10 || Exercises || 220 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>5.11 || Miscellaneous review exercises || 222 |- ! colspan="3" | 6. THE LOGARITHM, THE EXPONENTIAL, AND THE INVERSE TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS |- | 6.1 || Introduction || 226 |- | 6.2 || Motivation for the definition of the natural logarithm as an integral || 227 |- | 6.3 || The definition of the logarithm. Basic properties || 229 |- | 6.4 || The graph of the natural logarithm || 230 |- | 6.5 || Consequences of the functional equation <math>L(ab) = L(a) + L(b)</math> || 230 |- | 6.6 || Logarithms referred to any positive base <math>b \ne 1</math> || 232 |- | 6.7 || Differentiation and integration formulas involving logarithms || 233 |- | 6.8 || Logarithmic differentiation || 235 |- | 6.9 || Exercises || 236 |- | 6.10 || Polynomial approximations to the logarithm || 236 |- | 6.11 || Exercises || 242 |- | 6.12 || The exponential function || 242 |- | 6.13 || Exponentials expressed as powers of e || 242 |- | 6.14 || The definition of <math>e^x</math> for arbitrary real x || 244 |- | 6.15 || The definition of <math>a^x</math> for <math>a > 0</math> and x real || 245 |- | 6.16 || Differentiation and integration formulas involving exponentials || 245 |- | 6.17 || Exercises || 248 |- | 6.18 || The hyperbolic functions || 251 |- | 6.19 || Exercises || 251 |- | 6.20 || Derivatives of inverse functions || 252 |- | 6.21 || Inverses of the trigonometric functions || 253 |- | 6.22 || Exercises || 256 |- | 6.23 || Integration by partial fractions || 258 |- | 6.24 || Integrals which can be transformed into integrals of rational functions || 264 |- | 6.25 || Exercises || 267 |- | 6.26 || Miscellaneous review exercises || 268 |- ! colspan="3" | 7. POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATIONS TO FUNCTIONS |- | 7.1 || Introduction || 272 |- | 7.2 || The Taylor polynomials generated by a function || 273 |- | 7.3 || Calculus of Taylor polynomials || 275 |- | 7.4 || Exercises || 278 |- | 7.5 || Taylor's formula with remainder || 278 |- | 7.6 || Estimates for the error in Taylor's formula || 280 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>7.7 || Other forms of the remainder in Taylor's formula || 283 |- | 7.8 || Exercises || 284 |- | 7.9 || Further remarks on the error in Taylor's formula. The o-notation || 286 |- | 7.10 || Applications to indeterminate forms || 289 |- | 7.11 || Exercises || 290 |- | 7.12 || L'Hopital's rule for the indeterminate form 0/0 || 292 |- | 7.13 || Exercises || 295 |- | 7.14 || The symbols <math>+\inf</math> and <math>-\inf</math>. Extension of L'Hopital's rule || 296 |- | 7.15 || Infinite limits || 298 |- | 7.16 || The behavior of log<math>x</math> and <math>e^x</math> for large <math>x</math> || 300 |- | 7.17 || Exercises || 303 |- ! colspan="3" | 8. INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS |- | 8.1 || Introduction || 305 |- | 8.2 || Terminology and notation || 306 |- | 8.3 || A first-order differential equation for the exponential function || 307 |- | 8.4 || First-order linear differential equations || 308 |- | 8.5 || Exercises || 311 |- | 8.6 || Some physical problems leading to first-order linear differential equations || 313 |- | 8.7 || Exercises || 319 |- | 8.8 || Linear equations of second order with constant coefficients || 322 |- | 8.9 || Existence of solutions of the equation <math>y^{''} + by = 0</math> || 323 |- | 8.10 || Reduction of the general equation to the special case <math>y^{''} + by = 0</math> || 324 |- | 8.11 || Uniqueness theorem for the equation <math>y^{''} + by = 0</math> || 324 |- | 8.12 || Complete solution of the equation <math>y^{''} + by = 0</math> || 326 |- | 8.13 || Complete solution of the equation <math>y^{''} + ay^{'} + by = 0</math> || 326 |- | 8.14 || Exercises || 328 |- | 8.15 || Nonhomogeneous linear equations of second order with constant coefficients || 329 |- | 8.16 || Special methods for determining a particular solution of the nonhomogeneous equation <math>y^{''} + ay^{'} + by = R</math> || 332 |- | 8.17 || Exercises || 333 |- | 8.18 || Examples of physical problems leading to linear second-order equations with constant coefficients || 334 |- | 8.19 || Exercises || 339 |- | 8.20 || Remarks concerning nonlinear differential equations || 339 |- | 8.21 || Integral curves and direction fields || 341 |- | 8.22 || Exercises || 344 |- | 8.23 || First-order separable equations || 345 |- | 8.24 || Exercises || 347 |- | 8.25 || Homogeneous first-order equations || 347 |- | 8.26 || Exercises || 350 |- | 8.27 || Some geometrical and physical problems leading to first-order equations || 351 |- | 8.28 || Miscellaneous review exercises || 355 |- ! colspan="3" | 9. COMPLEX NUMBERS |- | 9.1 || Historical introduction || 358 |- | 9.2 || Definitions and field properties || 358 |- | 9.3 || The complex numbers as an extension of the real numbers || 360 |- | 9.4 || The imaginary unit <math>i</math> || 361 |- | 9.5 || Geometric interpretation. Modulus and argument || 362 |- | 9.6 || Exercises || 365 |- | 9.7 || Complex exponentials || 366 |- | 9.8 || Complex-valued functions || 368 |- | 9.9 || Examples of differentiation and integration formulas || 369 |- | 9.10 || Exercises || 371 |- ! colspan="3" | 10. SEQUENCES, INFINITE SERIES, IMPROPER INTEGRALS |- | 10.1 || Zeno's paradox || 374 |- | 10.2 || Sequences || 378 |- | 10.3 || Monotonic sequences of real numbers || 381 |- | 10.4 || Exercises || 382 |- | 10.5 || Infinite series || 383 |- | 10.6 || The linearity property of convergent series || 385 |- | 10.7 || Telescoping series || 386 |- | 10.8 || The geometric series || 388 |- | 10.9 || Exercises || 391 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>10.10 || Exercises on decimal expansions || 393 |- | 10.11 || Tests for convergence || 394 |- | 10.12 || Comparison tests for series of nonnegative terms || 394 |- | 10.13 || The integral test || 397 |- | 10.14 || Exercises || 398 |- | 10.15 || The root test and the ratio test for series of nonnegative terms || 399 |- | 10.16 || Exercises || 402 |- | 10.17 || Alternating series || 403 |- | 10.18 || Conditional and absolute convergence || 406 |- | 10.19 || The convergence tests of Dirichlet and Abel || 407 |- | 10.20 || Exercises || 409 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>10.21 || Rearrangements of series || 411 |- | 10.22 || Miscellaneous review exercises || 414 |- | 10.23 || Improper integrals || 416 |- | 10.24 || Exercises || 420 |- ! colspan="3" | 11. SEQUENCES AND SERIES OF FUNCTIONS |- | 11.1 || Pointwise convergence of sequences of functions || 422 |- | 11.2 || Uniform convergence of sequences of functions || 423 |- | 11.3 || Uniform convergence and continuity || 424 |- | 11.4 || Uniform convergence and integration || 425 |- | 11.5 || A sufficient condition for uniform convergence || 427 |- | 11.6 || Power series. Circle of convergence || 428 |- | 11.7 || Exercises || 430 |- | 11.8 || Properties of functions represented by real power series || 431 |- | 11.9 || The Taylor's series generated by a function || 434 |- | 11.10 || A sufficient condition for convergence of a Taylor's series || 435 |- | 11.11 || Power-series expansions for the exponential and trigonometric functions || 435 |- | <nowiki>*</nowiki>11.12 || Bernstein's theorem || 437 |- | 11.13 || Exercises || 438 |- | 11.14 || Power series and differential equations || 439 |- | 11.15 || The binomial series || 441 |- | 11.16 || Exercises || 443 |- ! colspan="3" | 12. VECTOR ALGEBRA |- | 12.1 || Historical introduction || 445 |- | 12.2 || The vector space of n-tuples of real numbers || 446 |- | 12.3 || Geometric interpretation for <math>n \leq 3</math> || 448 |- | 12.4 || Exercises || 450 |- | 12.5 || The dot product || 451 |- | 12.6 || Length or norm of a vector|| 453 |- | 12.7 || Orthogonality of vectors || 455 |- | 12.8 || Exercises || 456 |- | 12.9 || Projections. Angle between vectors in n-space || 457 |- | 12.10 || The unit coordinate vectors || 458 |- | 12.11 || Exercises || 460 |- | 12.12 || The linear span of a finite set of vectors || 462 |- | 12.13 || Linear independence || 463 |- | 12.14 || Bases || 466 |- | 12.15 || Exercises || 467 |- | 12.16 || The vector space <math>V_N(C)</math> of n-tuples of complex numbers || 468 |- | 12.17 || Exercises || 470 |- ! colspan="3" | 13. APPLICATIONS OF VECTOR ALGEBRA TO ANALYTIC GEOMETRY |- | 13.1 || Introduction || 471 |- | 13.2 || Lines in n-space || 472 |- | 13.3 || Some simple properties of straight lines || 473 |- | 13.4 || Lines and vector-valued functions || 474 |- | 13.5 || Exercises || 477 |- | 13.6 || Planes in Euclidean n-space || 478 |- | 13.7 || Planes and vector-valued functions || 481 |- | 13.8 || Exercises || 482 |- | 13.9 || The cross product || 483 |- | 13.10 || The cross product expressed as a determinant || 486 |- | 13.11 || Exercises || 487 |- | 13.12 || The scalar triple product || 488 |- | 13.13 || Cramer's rule for solving a system of three linear equations || 490 |- | 13.14 || Exercises || 491 |- | 13.15 || Normal vectors to planes || 493 |- | 13.16 || Linear Cartesian equations for planes || 494 |- | 13.17 || Exercises || 496 |- | 13.18 || The conic sections || 497 |- | 13.19 || Eccentricity of conic sections || 500 |- | 13.20 || Polar equations for conic sections || 501 |- | 13.21 || Exercises || 503 |- | 13.22 || Conic sections symmetric about the origin || 504 |- | 13.23 || Cartesian equations for the conic sections || 505 |- | 13.24 || Exercises || 508 |- | 13.25 || Miscellaneous exercises on conic sections || 509 |- ! colspan="3" | 14. CALCULUS OF VECTOR-VALUED FUNCTIONS |- | 14.1 || Vector-valued functions of a real variable || 512 |- | 14.2 || Algebraic operations. Components || 512 |- | 14.3 || Limits, derivatives, and integrals || 513 |- | 14.4 || Exercises || 516 |- | 14.5 || Applications to curves. Tangency || 517 |- | 14.6 || Applications to curvilinear motion. Velocity, speed, and acceleration || 520 |- | 14.7 || Exercises || 524 |- | 14.8 || The unit tangent, the principal normal, and the osculating plane of a curve || 525 |- | 14.9 || Exercises || 528 |- | 14.10 || The definition of arc length || 529 |- | 14.11 || Additivity of arc length || 532 |- | 14.12 || The arc-length function || 533 |- | 14.13 || Exercises || 535 |- | 14.14 || Curvature of a curve || 536 |- | 14.15 || Exercises || 538 |- | 14.16 || Velocity and acceleration in polar coordinates || 540 |- | 14.17 || Plane motion with radial acceleration || 542 |- | 14.18 || Cylindrical coordinates || 543 |- | 14.19 || Exercises || 543 |- | 14.20 || Applications to planetary motion || 545 |- | 14.21 || Miscellaneous review exercises || 549 |- ! colspan="3" | 15. LINEAR SPACES |- | 15.1 || Introduction || 551 |- | 15.2 || The definition of a linear space || 551 |- | 15.3 || Examples of linear spaces || 552 |- | 15.4 || Elementary consequences of the axioms || 554 |- | 15.5 || Exercises || 555 |- | 15.6 || Subspaces of a linear space || 556 |- | 15.7 || Dependent and independent sets in a linear space || 557 |- | 15.8 || Bases and dimension || 559 |- | 15.9 || Exercises || 560 |- | 15.10 || Inner products, Euclidean spaces, norms || 561 |- | 15.11 || Orthogonality in a Euclidean space || 564 |- | 15.12 || Exercises || 566 |- | 15.13 || Construction of orthogonal sets. The Gram-Schmidt process || 568 |- | 15.14 || Orthogonal complements. Projections || 572 |- | 15.15 || Best approximation of elements in a Euclidean space by elements in a finite-dimensional subspace || 574 |- | 15.16 || Exercises || 576 |- ! colspan="3" | 16. LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS AND MATRICES |- | 16.1 || Linear transformations || 578 |- | 16.2 || Null space and range || 579 |- | 16.3 || Nullity and rank || 581 |- | 16.4 || Exercises || 582 |- | 16.5 || Algebraic operations on linear transformations || 583 |- | 16.6 || Inverses || 585 |- | 16.7 || One-to-one linear transformations || 587 |- | 16.8 || Exercises || 589 |- | 16.9 || Linear transformations with prescribed values || 590 |- | 16.10 || Matrix representations of linear transformations || 591 |- | 16.11 || Construction of a matrix representation in diagonal form || 594 |- | 16.12 || Exercises || 596 |- | 16.13 || Linear spaces of matrices || 597 |- | 16.14 || Isomorphism between linear transformations and matrices || 599 |- | 16.15 || Multiplication of matrices || 600 |- | 16.16 || Exercises || 603 |- | 16.17 || Systems of linear equations || 605 |- | 16.18 || Computation techniques || 607 |- | 16.19 || Inverses of square matrices || 611 |- | 16.20 || Exercises || 613 |- | 16.21 || Miscellaneous exercises on matrices || 614 |- ! colspan="2" | Answers to exercises || 617 |- ! colspan="2" | Index || 657 |- |} [[Category:Mathematics]] {{Stub}}
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