Introduction to calculus

A short film

Some questions:

1. What method did the Ancient Greeks use in order to compute the area of a curved shape?
2. According to Professor Dave, this method has inspired another kind of calculation. What is it?
3. Who was the first mathematician to make considerable progress in this field?
4. Why did Newton develop calculus? For which other field did he need to use these kinds of calculations?
5. What did Newton put in the spotlight regarding falling objects and velocity?
6. List the two types of calculus mentioned by Professor Dave.

Other videos

We will not have time to study his work, but Grant Sanderson, also known as 3Blue1Brown on YouTube, made very interesting videos about calculus.

Here is the first of the series.

He also made other videos on many different mathematical subjects. Calculus is one of the most represented subject on the Internet, due to its applications in engineering.