THIS book seems well adapted to serve as a text-book for a first course in the differential and integral calculus. Fourteen chapters deal with the differential calculus and its applications to maxima ...

Check your understanding of differential calculus and practise finding the greatest/least value(s) a function can take using optimisation. Create an expression for and use optimisation to find the ...

Wolfram|Alpha: The makers of Mathematica (a very powerful mathematical software package, popular amongst applied mathematicians and engineers) bring us a "google-like" mathematical search engine. In ...

Calculus is a branch of mathematics that explores variables and how they change by looking at them in infinitely small pieces called infinitesimals. Calculus, as it is practiced today, was invented in ...

The following is an excerpt of Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe by Steven Strogatz. Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, computers, or microwave ovens. We ...

SOPH. Ant. 322 et seq. “MANY things are wonderful,” says the Greek poet, “ but nought more wonderful than man, all-inventive man!” And surely, among many wonders wrought out by human endeavor, there ...