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The Teaching of Differentials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

J. R. Wilton ,
J. T. Combridge ,
E. G. Phillips  and
T.A.A.B
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In the July number of the Gazette Mr. E. G. Phillips says: “Frequently it happens that students whose early training has been on the lines of many of the existing elementary text-books on the Differential Calculus come up to the University never even having heard of a differential! It would be of the greatest possible assistance to those responsible for the later teaching of the Calculus if the schoolmasters taught the subject from the differential standpoint right from the start”. I have the very greatest hesitation in subscribing to this latter statement.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 16 , Issue 217 , February 1932 , pp. 5 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1932

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References

Page no 5 note * Vol. XV p. 401.

Page no 5 note † Equation (2) of Phillips’ paper.

Page no 5 note ‡ Ibid. p. 403.

Page no 6 note * P. 401.

Page no 9 note * See Poussin, de la Vallée, Cours déAnalyse Infinitésimale, i (1921), 51 Google Scholar.

Page no 9 note † A Course of Analysis (Cambridge 1930), 165 (f.n.).

Page no 10 note * Loc. cit. 49.

Page no 10 note † E.g. B. Williamson, Differential Calculus, pp. 3-5 (1899)

Page no 10 note ‡ Notably Prof. A.R. Forsyth’s Theory of Functions (1893).