"Calculus: The Princess of Mathematics" is originated from an extraordinarily brilliant mind-that of Professor Devi Prasad Verma, my elder brother. During his student days itself he would come out with absolutely original ideas that would solve the problems in Mathematics much more efficiently than the traditional methods. In his MA examination from Patna University in 1957, he got two gold medals for the academic excellence.
Post retirement, as I call him, Bhaiya had a dream to facilitate all young students enjoy the beauty of Mathematics and develop mathematical skills. He worked very hard for years towards this dream and collated his ideas in the form of textbooks. However, life did not give him enough time and the task remained unfinished.
It was then that I, together with his two mathematician daughters, Ms Kiran Verma and Ms Jyoti Panadiwal, decided to take up his unfinished agenda to the destination where students get a fair opportunity to appreciate the inherent coherence of Mathematics. We put ourselves in the role of learners and developed his thoughts on Calculus to present them in the form of Calculus: The Princess of Mathematics a truly learner-centric textbook. The three years that we put in to give the final shape to this book, were very educative for all of us and I too revealed many intricate interwoven structures of the concepts of Calculus.
The students and teachers will find several uncommon and untraditional approaches in this book. The concepts of differentiation and integration are introduced in the same chapter and this coupling is carried throughout the book. We found it extremely interesting to dig out apparent puzzles from the usually ignored deeper concepts. Making exercise problems, most of which solve a specific purpose, was greatly satisfying. My experience of writing Concepts of Physics greatly helped in shaping this book and making justice to Bhaiya's dream.
All three of us, bubbling with emotion and devotion, have converted our actions to perfections.
Anyone using this textbook is our co-traveler in this divine journey of learning.
The authors are grateful to Garuda Prakashan and their entire team for having undertaken the task of publishing this book. Though the thrust of their publishing house is more on social issues and literature, Shree Sankrant ji and Ankur ji readily accepted our request to publish this textbook on Calculus. The technical team of Garuda Prakashan under the leadership of Hema ji has been very patient all through our interactions with them towards making so many changes to the manuscript. We remain grateful to every staff of Garuda Prakashan involved in getting this book ready.
We are grateful to Ms Anupama Sharma for the first word processing of the manuscript, which had been given to her in very poor handwriting. From beautiful cartoons in the prescripts to the intricate graphs of mathematical functions, Anupama ji has put in excellent artistic efforts to make this book clearly distinct from all other available ones.
The beautiful cover of Calculus: The Princess of Mathematics was first ideated by Ms. Avni, a young, talented student of NIFT, Bhopal, and executed by designer Rakesh Chaudhary. We are truly grateful to them.
We are sincerely indebted to Late Professor Radha Charan Gupta who had read the entire script of this book after it was composed and blessed us in this endeavor to make our students feel the spirit of Calculus. Professor Gupta, a Padma Shri awardee, has done a huge amount of research in history of mathematics, and his blessing has given us a lot of strength.
We are very grateful to Professor Vijay Singh and Professor K Ramasubrahmanian for writing Guest Chapters for this book, upon our request. These chapters have given us as authors much insight into the (Indian) contributions of our own ancestors in developing the concepts of Calculus, and the procedures to use it for calculating useful quantities.
Though the student and teacher communities of India may not seem to have made direct, visible contributions in the making of this book, their role is in no way small. These communities are close to our hearts; they are the driving force for all of us, and give us the inspiration to work for making education more meaningful. Thank you, all students and teachers.
We might have missed some names, but we acknowledge all those who helped us in any way in writing this book.
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