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Making Calculus Easy and Interesting: New Book from Veteran Teacher Aims to Simplify Tricky Subject, Shares Its Remarkable History

SLIDELL, La., May 9 PRNewswire — Despite its name, "The Calculus Primer" (published by AuthorHouse — http://www.authorhouse.com), the new book by Robert J. Madison, is not a textbook. Nevertheless, it is packed full of useful and interesting information on a remarkable area of mathematics often marred by labels of complexity and confusion. Madison's helpful primer offers the origin and simplification of calculus' two vital processes: differentiation and integration.

With eight years of teaching high school chemistry and physics, six years of teaching college-level mathematics and 16 years of teaching college-level computer science under his belt, Madison knows a thing or two about how to effectively get a point across. Now retired, Madison draws upon his more than three decades of teaching experience to present a book that can be appreciated by anyone who has had or is preparing for a course in calculus.

"The Calculus Primer" delivers not only an easy-to-understand explanation of differentiation and integration, but also an important history lesson on the development of these processes.

"On the historical side," says Madison, "we must realize that calculus is one of the greatest creations of the human mind."

The work of England's Isaac Newton and Germany's Gottfried Leibniz, the process of differentiation was designed to produce the instantaneous velocity of a moving object. Madison asserts that his book will show readers how to distinguish between the two velocities: average velocity and instantaneous velocity. The process of integration was created by reversing the process of differentiation. The process of finding the area under a curve, but above the horizontal axis and within the limits on the horizontal axis was established by the process of integration. These two processes were combined to produce the fundamental theorem of calculus.

In addition to uncomplicated explanations of calculus' creation and methods, "The Calculus Primer" also serves to answer the question, "How can I actually use basic calculus?" Madison provides many simple examples of real-world application.

Robert J. Madison holds a degree in science education from Southeastern Louisiana University and a master's degree in mathematics from Southern Mississippi University. "The Calculus Primer" is his first book.

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