Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Calculus for Christmas.

I am toying with writing a series of blog posts that deal with calculus over the holiday break. I have been mulling over a certain phrase that crops up whenever I tell people what it is I do. Most people have a default response to anything regarding mathematics: "I don't understand math." This has bothered me for sometime; mostly because I used to be the one saying it.

The posts would not be lectures on calculus, or attempts at explaining the dense symbolic language involved in describing calculus. Instead, I would like to attempt to explain why calculus is really an easy set of concepts to understand and why it is so hard to master.

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