An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus<br><br>Analytical science, after having been long neglected in these countries as an elementary department of education, has, within a few years, been cultivated by the young aspirants for mathematical celebrity with an ardour; and prosecuted with a rapidity and success, which its warmest admirers could scarcely have hoped for. This change would probably have taken place at an earlier period, but for the obstacle opposed to it by the want of treatises on the subject, in our language, of a sufficiently elementary nature. The restless activity of the human mind in the pursuit of knowledge was not long to be checked by so trifling an impediment, and our students soon found in foreign works that which our own professors had failed to supply; and though the medium of these treatises, analytical science began, and has continued, to be cultivated at the universities with singular success.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.