What Is Calculus About?
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- Welcome to Calculus! This literally means "a pebble or stone used for counting," so you can imagine what math has come from and gotten to, right? Just kidding. Calculus is the s…
By Ray Li, Katherine Rosinski, Victor Wang
- What Is Calculus? If you're willing to spend some time on this, go through section 1.1 of Strang's online textbook, available here. If not, read on; this lesson was inspired by …
By Matt Superdock, Victor Wang
- Calculus literally means something like the "study of change". More precisely, and importantly, it describes functions through the lenses of the "very large" (essentially "infin…
By Victor Wang, Victor Wang
- Calculus is one of the most powerful tools in mathematics, developed by Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz in the 17th century. This subject matter is key for understanding …
By Joshua Siktar, Aditya Ramabadran
- Welcome to calculus, probably the first of the advanced topics you will ever learn! Calculus is fascinating and you can imagine why. With calculus, you can prove results that yo…
By Ahaan Rungta
- Welcome to the heart of the subject of my heart: calculus! In the Expii calculus map, we plan to get you familiar to the fundamental concepts of calculus, such as limits, deriva…
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- Calculus Calculus deals with the infinite. The three main concepts in calculus are limits: what happens to a function f(x)f(x)f(x)as we get closer and closer to a certain value …
By Holden Lee