Calculus for the AmbitiousThomas William Körner
Calculus for the Ambitious
by Thomas William Körner · first published 2014
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…textbooks that make calculus into a boring parade of examples, where the goal of the game seems to be becoming an ace at pattern-matching. More recent, more idiosyncratic but quite nice is T.W. Körner's Calculus for the Ambitious. I could see a motivated high-schooler learn calculus from this.
on “Programming books you might want to consider reading” ↗The Pleasures of Counting by T. W. Körner. If you want something more oriented towards analysis, I see he also authored a Calculus for the Ambitious but I have no experience with it.
on “Ask HN: Recommend a maths book for a teenager?” ↗