A concise introduction to calculus that focuses on how to solve problems. Designed for first year students in engineering and the physical sciences.

Fancy-pants calculus books are easy to find. There are so many it's a wonder that we aren't drowning under the crush. There are three times as many "math" listing on Amazon as there are "sex" listings. This may be because nearly a million American college students are expected to shell out some $200 annually to purchase these doorstops that they never even crack open.

This book is not fancy. And it doesn't have pants.

"Doing Calculus"...

This is a book about hacking, but not just any kind of hacking. It is about mathematical hacking, or scientific computing. If you like math and want to use computers to do math or solve mathematical problems, then this book is the for you.

This is version 3, which includes over 80 additional pages, with extensive additions on Python classes, iPython, magic functions, random numbers, and probability and statistics. The emphasis througout the text is on programming in the iPython notebook.

Part I gives an introduction to programming, the Python shell, and using iPython...