Approximately 85 black-and-white photographs and line illustrations. Index. Appendixes. Bibliography. Glossary. Cross-references. Chronology. Tables and charts. 176 Pages. 7 3/8 x 9 1/4.

The Facts On File Calculus Handbook brings the fundamentals of calculus to students in an easy and accessible format. An ideal primer for the subject, this book takes all the basics of calculus and helps students understand and apply them in their work.

Topics include:
Absolute value
Binomial theorem
Derivative
Exponential growth
Greatest integer function
Implicit differentiation
Integration
Law of cosines
Linear function
Parabola
Polynomial functions
Second derivative
Velocity.

Biographies include:
Jakob Bernoulli
René Descartes
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
François Viète
John Wallis.

Tables, charts, and diagrams include:
Complementary and supplementary relations (angles in degrees)
Convergence tests for series
Derivatives
Indefinite integrals (antiderivatives)
Periodicity (angles in radians)
Pythagorean relations
Sum-to-product formulas
Values for special angles.