The Buccaneers of America provides laymen and mathematicians alike

provides laymen and mathematicians alike with a detailed picture of the historical development of one of the most momentous achievements of the human intellect ― the calculus

The text concludes with solutions or hints for odd-numbered exercises

or a cicada

notion of limit

Beginning with Deux Arabesques (1888)

The Buccaneers of America provides laymen and mathematicians alikeA cross between genuine privateers, commissioned to defend a country's colonies and trade, and outright pirates, buccaneers were largely English, French, and Dutch adventurers who plied the waters among the Caribbean Islands and along the coasts of Central America, Venezuela, and Colombia more than 300 years ago. The activities of these bands of plundering sea rovers reached a peak in the second half of the seventeenth century, when this remarkable