Gibson's “Elementary Treatise on the Calculus” won the admiration of ... At the time of his death the book was in the press and he had revised three-quarters of the proofs; Prof.

Other books have traveled these paths, but they presuppose knowledge of calculus. This book requires only a basic knowledge of high school geometry and algebra. Exercises introduce further historical ...

Combinatory logic and lambda-calculus, originally devised in the 1920s, have since developed into linguistic tools, especially useful in programming languages. The authors' previous book served as the ...