Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XV, 508 p)
ISBN:
9781461202714
,
9781461266884
Note:
My first book had a perilous childhood. With this new edition, I hope it has reached a secure middle age. The book was born in 1969 as an "innovative textbook"- a breed everyone claims to want but which usually goes straight to the orphanage. My original plan had been to write a small supplementary textbook on differential forms, but overly optimistic publishers talked me out of this modest intention and into the wholly unrealistic objective (especially unrealistic for an unknown 30-year-old author) of writing a full-scale advanced calculus course that would revolutionize the way advanced calculus was taught and sell lots of books in the process. I have never regretted the effort that I expended in the pursuit of this hopeless dream -only that the book was published as a textbook and marketed as a textbook, with the result that the case for differential forms that it tried to make was hardly heard. It received a favorable telegraphic review of a few lines in the American Mathematical Monthly, and that was it. The only other way a potential reader could learn of the book's existence was to read an advertisement or to encounter one of the publisher's salesmen. Ironically, my subsequent books- Riemann's Zeta Function, Fermat's Last Theorem and Galois Theory- sold many more copies than the original edition of Advanced Calculus, even though they were written with no commercial motive at all and were directed to a narrower group of readers
Language:
English
Keywords:
Analysis
;
Differentialform
;
Infinitesimalrechnung
;
Einführung
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4612-0271-4
Author information:
Edwards, Harold M. 1936-2020
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