The derivative is a basic concept of differential calculus. However, if we calculate the derivative as change in distance over change in time, the result at any instant is 0/0, which seems meaningless ...

Calculus は、微積分学を意味する英単語です。 ラテン語で、"小さな石"を意味する言葉に由来するのだとか。 Differential calculus は、あるものをひたすら細かくしていく、微分。Integral calculusは、小さな粒を統合していく、積分。 日本語で、"微積"にあたる英単語 ...

THE author of this little book writes as if it were the first of its kind, and in encouraging his readers he continually jeers at the professional mathematician in whatmight be regarded as reckless ...

When doing complex calculations in school, we have fond memories of using a calculator. The credit for this goes to Gottfried Leibniz. Gottfried Leibniz was a renowned German polymath, known as the ...

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 ...

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 ...