Re:Big Picture of Calculus (2010) [video]
by jhck on Monday February 13, 2017 @10:28AM
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In a book review from 1988 [1, p. 892] the mathematician Underwood Dudley claimed:
> First-semester calculus has NO applications.
That said, the central ideas of calculus are firmly grounded in daily life (as Strang points out in the video): Differential calculus is about investigating speed (or, more generally, rate of change), and integral calculus is about investigating area.
> First-semester calculus has NO applications.
That said, the central ideas of calculus are firmly grounded in daily life (as Strang points out in the video): Differential calculus is about investigating speed (or, more generally, rate of change), and integral calculus is about investigating area.
[1]: http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/0002989051112.di99173...