This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper presents a study of instructors' and students' perceptions of the knowledge to be learned about limits of functions in a college ...

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Calculus has a formidable reputation as being difficult and/or unpleasant, but it doesn’t have to be. Bringing humor and a sense of play to the topic can go a long way toward demystifying it. That’s ...

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 ...

If you went to engineering school, you probably remember going to a lot of calculus classes. You may or may not remember a lot of calculus. If you didn’t go to engineering school, you will find that ...

Two high school students not only conquered calculus, they pulled off an achievement that can stump college professors. Of the 302,532 students around the world who took the Advanced Placement ...

Calculus has long been the academic Goliath standing in the path of aspiring engineers, economists, scientists, and even philosophers. For many, it's not the numbers or equations that feel ...

In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.