[ouija]

Seems like a lot of effort went into typesetting this, wow!

I can recommend "Calculus: Basic Concepts for High Schools" by the same author (L.V. Tarasov) to anybody unfamiliar with calculus: https://archive.org/details/TarasovCalculus/page/n1/mode/2up. It's written as a dialogue between author and reader.

[the-mitr]

Thanks for linking Calculus book.

His book on school physics also use the dialogue approach:

Questions and Answers in School Physics (Dialogues between students and teacher)

https://archive.org/details/questions-and-answers-in-school-...

While other two books use dialogues intermittently as in the probability book

Basics Concepts of Quantum Mechanics

https://archive.org/details/tarasov-basic-concepts-of-quantu...

This Amazingly Symmetrical World

https://archive.org/details/TarasovThisAmazinglySymmetricalW...

(I am the curator/maintainer of the mirtitles.org blog and the typesetter of the books)

[a_w]

https://mirtitles.org/2018/09/04/calculus-basic-concepts-for...

https://archive.org/details/LevTarasovCalculusBasicConceptsF...

[tharkun__]

This seems to have the hallmarks of LaTeX, meaning: not as much time sunk into "typesetting" as you might think ;)

[hgsgm]

It's not polite to accuse people of not reading the article, but

> This completely digital version typeset in using TEX with EB Garamond font by DAMITR MAZANAV [e-mail]

> Released on the web by http://mirtitles.org in 2023.

> Access the BTEX project files http://gitlab.com/mirtitles/twibop

[FollowingTheDao]

Learning calculus in high school made me question everything. You can never measure anything, never mind the area of a circe using calculus. It will only ever be a "good enough" measurement.

There is a point where all of you will finally come to appreciate the limits of rationalism and materialism and let go a bit more.

[hgsgm]

You seem to have misunderstood the essence of calculus. Calculus provides efficient, high quality estimates for messy real world phenomena.

Calculus put a man on the moon and a camera next to Pluto.

[zelphirkalt]

It is not really about measuring things, but about reaching a definitive answer given some assumptions. Sometimes our notation of numbers get in the way of writing things shortly (instead of infinite decimal places), other times we can use a fraction and be exact on the paper we write on.