San Antonio College Library

"Is there always a prime number between N and 2N? Where, approximately, is the millionth prime? And just what does calculus have to do with answering either of these questions? It turns out that calculus has a lot to do with these questions, as this book can show you. The theme of the book is approximations. Calculus is a powerful tool because it allows us to aproximate complicated functions with simpler ones. Indeed, replacing a function locally...