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About the Course

Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications. The course is ideal for students beginning in the engineering, physical, and social sciences. Distinguishing features of the course include: 1) the introduction and use of Taylor series and approximations from the beginning; 2) a novel synthesis of discrete and continuous forms of Calculus; 3) an emphasis on the conceptual over the computational; and 4) a clear, dynamic, unified approach. In this first part--part one of five--you will extend your understanding of Taylor series, review limits, learn the *why* behind l'Hopital's rule, and, most importantly, learn a new language for describing growth and decay of functions: the BIG O....

Top reviews

YG

Jul 2, 2018

Very well structured for a refresher course. Thank you Professor Ghrist for your effort in putting this course together. A little additional outside research was required but well worth the effort.

NL

Feb 9, 2021

Excellent introduction to Calculus, I wanted to review the material to tutor my child but I am very happy that I learned a whole new way of looking at Calculus.

Thank you so much Prof. Ghrist.

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By adilet a

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Jun 17, 2016

This is very good course for students!!!

By Rajasekhar

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May 21, 2016

Good illustration of complex topics.

By Atef H

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May 21, 2016

Great new approach towards calculus.

By Huan Y C

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Jul 26, 2024

this course is very challenging.

By PADMA A

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May 12, 2020

The course is really informative

By JEROME R P L

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Mar 18, 2023

Add more examples pleaseeeee!

By Ahsan M

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Jan 25, 2020

great course fot beignners !!

By Oliver A

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Jan 2, 2023

great teaching and material

By Jaspreet S

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Jan 25, 2016

very good learning process

By Amri M

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Feb 8, 2021

lil bit confusing

By Balakrishnan M

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Apr 11, 2020

Improve knowledge

By MOHA A

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Oct 12, 2024

Excellent cours

By Sattam S S A

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Apr 26, 2020

it was great

By Johannes M

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May 20, 2016

Very good!

By Arthur S

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Sep 10, 2022

good

By Aditya T

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Jun 25, 2017

good

By Senanayake H

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Dec 18, 2016

good

By Suman K

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Jun 21, 2020

nic

By Jonah A

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Feb 11, 2019

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By Suyash M

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Mar 18, 2019

Very good course for revisiting calculus. It never feels old as it tackles functions and limits from a different perspective - that of the Taylor Series. But it is mostly concerned with evaluating limits and series. Some things were assumed to be true without explanation, which, I admit, might have made understanding them easier. But it slightly chafes the mind to know something without knowing proof for it, and how it came to be. Some questions that may arise but remain unanswered in the lectures include : How to find the domain of convergence of a series? Where did the Taylor's Series formula come from? These and some more are not addressed in this course, but they might be in the future chapters (which I have not completed)

By Becky B

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Aug 17, 2020

I find the forums much more difficult to navigate than the edx.com MIT calculus course forums. So when I had a question on a homework question or needed additional explanation for a particular topic or type of problem I found it frustratingly difficult to find help in the forums.

I know he is very popular, and his videos are well done, but I didn't learn nearly as much as when I took the MIT courses on edx. I didn't feel like the videos adequately prepared me to be successful on the homework.

By Jawad

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Sep 5, 2020

This course is good and the lecture is okay. However, I hated lengthy question that only assess your time in multiplication and addition of terms. I expect hard questions mean question that trigger higher level order thinking not complex multiplication and addition that is really time consuming but can be done without using critical thinking skills.

By María J L A

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Aug 2, 2021

El profesor debería hacer más ejemplos parecidos a los que vienen en los exámenes. También, debería ser más explicativo en las afirmaciones que hace sobre todo en el tema de Orders of Growth, y hacer ejemplos análogos a los exámenes correspondientes. Gracias.

By S. A

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Jun 7, 2021

the course is for those who already know calculus and looking for some more challenges. If you are new in this area you better take some basic courses, not this one.

By Tomas R

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May 21, 2020

Great course, but I think that Calculus One (

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_One) is even beter. I found it more comprehensible.