Toward a Clean and Lively Calculus

A recent publication, Toward a Lean and Lively Calculus [Douglas 19871, contains reports and articles on the teaching of calculus. In his review of the book, R.W. Hamming [I9881 maintains that the calculus texts currently in use are very much alike, with only very minor differences among them. Meanwhile, excellent texts with different approaches, written by first-class mathematicians, are being ignored.