AMONG the many ways in which the American Mathematical Society has endeavoured to popularise and develop the study of higher mathematics, not the least remarkable and useful is the practice of holding ...

Calculus: A word that triggers involuntary fear spasms in the best of us. But the days of slogging through tedious textbook derivatives are over, if you want them to be. For the past few years, people ...

Dr. E. J. Berg, professor of Electrical Engineering at Union College, Schenectady, New York, will give two lectures on "Heaviside's Operational Calculus and Some of its Application to Engineering ...

Poster presentation: View a poster (PDF) describing this project from the 2013 Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Description: We and our colleagues in SFU's Department of Mathematics have recorded ...

Standing in four inches of flood water, one UC San Diego professor continued teaching his calculus class this week during powerful El Niño storms, earning major credit with students. On Wednesday, ...

(Warning: Students cannot receive credit for more than one of Math 112 or Math 132) Concepts covered in this course include: methods of integration; applications of the integral to geometry, physics, ...

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 ...

Students pursuing or likely to pursue majors in Mathematics, Chemistry, Geophysics, Geology-Geophysics, or Physics, or following the B.S. program in Computer Science, should take one of the Calculus ...

Calculus helped retired NFL player John Urschel “move from a world that was static to a world that could move and flow.” The following is an excerpt of Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football by ...

Calculus is historically a gatekeeper course for science, engineering, technology and math fields: if a student fails calculus, it’s do-not-pass go. Even non-STEM majors who enroll in calculus face ...