How do you integrate with a computer? Let's start with an example. Suppose a car travels only in the x-direction. It starts at x = 0 m with a velocity of 0 m/s. If the car has a constant acceleration ...

The Calculus is made up of a few basic principles that anyone can understand. If looked at in the right way, it’s easy to apply these principles to the world around you and to see how the real world ...

Just how fast can the fastest human run? This adapted book excerpt from Infinite Powers reveals how calculus helps us investigate the nature of motion and change. “Art,” said Pablo Picasso, “is a lie ...

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 ...

This is probably the last of three articles on how piecewise-linear functions could be used as a helpful on-ramp to the big ideas in calculus. In the first article, we saw how it’s possible to develop ...

Machines are getting better at maths – artificial intelligence has learned to solve university-level calculus problems in seconds. François Charton and Guillaume Lample at Facebook AI Research trained ...