Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics
暫譯: 應用於微積分、機率與統計的數學方法

理解微積分對於數學在多個領域的創意應用至關重要。本書專注於數學方法中最廣泛使用的應用，包括與其他重要領域如機率和統計相關的應用。這本書分為四個部分，首先介紹代數和解析幾何，然後探討代數函數和超越函數的微積分及其應用。除了三個有用的附錄外，本書還提供了一些習題的答案。適合高年級本科生和研究生，也是一個實用的專業參考資料。1985年版。310幅圖。18個表格。

Richard W. Hamming: The Computer Icon
Richard W. Hamming (1915-1998) was first a programmer of one of the earliest digital computers while assigned to the Manhattan Project in 1945, then for many years he worked at Bell Labs, and later at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He was a witty and iconoclastic mathematician and computer scientist whose work and influence still reverberates through the areas he was interested in and passionate about. Three of his long-lived books have been reprinted by Dover: Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, 1987; Digital Filters, 1997; and Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability and Statistics, 2004.

In the Author's Own Words:
"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."

"There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think."

"Whereas Newton could say, 'If I have seen a little farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants, I am forced to say, 'Today we stand on each other's feet.' Perhaps the central problem we face in all of computer science is how we are to get to the situation where we build on top of the work of others rather than redoing so much of it in a trivially different way."

"If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work." -- Richard W. Hamming

**理查德·W·哈明：電腦偶像**
理查德·W·哈明（1915-1998）在1945年被指派到曼哈頓計畫時，成為最早的數位電腦程式設計師之一，隨後在貝爾實驗室工作多年，並在加州蒙特雷的海軍研究生院任職。他是一位機智且具反叛精神的數學家和電腦科學家，他的工作和影響力至今仍在他所關心和熱愛的領域中迴響。他的三本長壽書籍由多佛出版社再版：科學家與工程師的數值方法，1987年；數位濾波器，1997年；以及應用於微積分、機率與統計的數學方法，2004年。

**作者的話：**
「計算的目的是洞察，而不是數字。」
「有些波長是人類看不見的，有些聲音是人類聽不見的，也許電腦有些思維是人類無法思考的。」
「牛頓曾說過：‘如果我比其他人看得更遠，那是因為我站在巨人的肩膀上。’我不得不說：‘今天我們站在彼此的腳上。’或許我們在計算機科學中面臨的核心問題是，如何能夠在他人的工作基礎上進行建設，而不是以微不足道的不同方式重做這麼多工作。」
「如果你不專注於重要的問題，那麼你不太可能做出重要的工作。」 -- 理查德·W·哈明