The goal of the course is to show why calculus has served as the principal quantitative language of science for more than three hundred years. How did Newton and Leibniz transform a bag of tricks into a powerful tool for both mathematics and science? Why is calculus so useful in geometry, physics, probability and economics? Why are mathematicians so concerned with rigor in calculus? Since calculus is about calculating, what is the relationship between calculus and computers? What is the relationship between calculus and new topics like chaos and nonlinearity? If you want to understand what calculus is really about, then this is the course for you.
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In 1996, NERSC Chief Technologist David H. Bailey, together with Canadian mathematicians Peter Borwein and Simon Plouffe, found a new formula for pi. This formula permits one to calculate the n-th binary or hexadecimal digits of pi, without having to cal
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