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Get A Grip On Calculus!
By The Beachwood Math Affairs DeskLecture titles from a four-DVD course about calculus as advertised in The New Yorker on page 37 of the Feb. 4, 2008 edition.
1. Two Ideas, Vast Implications
2. Stop Sign Crime -
The First Idea of Calculus
The Derivative
3. Another Car, Another Crime -
The Second Idea of Calculus
The Integral
4. The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
5. Visualizing the Derivative - Slopes
6. Derivates the Easy Way -
Symbol Pushing
7. Abstracting the Derivative -
Circles and Belts
8. Circles, Pyramids, Cones, and Spheres
9. Archimedes and the Tractrix
10. The Integral and the Fundamental Theorem
11. Abstracting the Integral -
Pyramids and Dams
12. Buffon's Needle or pi from Breadsticks
13. Achilles, Tortoises, Limits, and Continuity
14. Calculators and Approximations
15. The Best of All Possible Worlds -
Optimization
16. Economics and Architecture
17. Galileo, Newton, and Baseball
18. Getting of the Line - Motion in Space
19. Mountain Slopes and Tangent Planes
20. Several Variables - Volumes Galore
21. The Fundamental Theorem Extended
22. Fields of Arrows - Differential Equations
23. Owls, Rats, Waves, and Guitars
24. Calculus Everywhere
Posted on February 11, 2008
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