What is Calculus?

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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0:00.0	As early as 2,400 years ago, Greek philosophers were coming up with paradoxes that seemingly had no solution,
0:06.0	and early mathematicians had come up with problems that seemed impossible to solve.
0:11.0	It wasn't until the late 17th century that the techniques were finally developed
0:15.3	to solve these problems and unlock new fields of science and mathematics. Learn more about calculus,
0:21.8	what it is and what it attempts to do,
0:24.0	on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. I have a very wide range of people who listen to this podcast.
0:46.0	There are some of you who consider yourselves bad at math and would never consider taking a course in calculus.
0:51.0	For you, this episode will simply try to explain what in the world calculus is and why it's even a thing.
0:58.0	I have students who listen to this podcast. If you're considering taking a calculus course at
1:04.1	sometime in the future, for you I hope this episode will give you an idea of what you
1:08.3	will be getting out of the course and why it's worth learning. The remaining
1:12.1	group are those like me who have taken a
1:14.2	calculus course. This episode is simply what I wished my professors had done on the
1:19.7	first day of class. We jumped right into problem solving and never took a few minutes to just
1:24.9	step back and address why we were taking this course in the first place and what
1:29.2	this entire branch of mathematics cult calculus was about. So with that, most ancient
1:36.6	mathematics was static. Mathematicians were trying to solve a problem. What's
1:41.2	the area of a triangle or what is the solution to an equation?
1:44.4	For example, what number when added to two will equal four? In algebra we state
1:51.2	this as X plus two equals four. What we want to know is what is X.
1:56.0	In this case, X is obviously 2. 2 plus 2 equals 4.
2:00.0	That's a very simple equation.
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