Allow me to make a shameless plug for a very cool project currently underway by my GVSU colleague Matt Boelkins. He is writing a free, open-source calculus textbook that will be available in PDF form ...

The witch of Agnesi, you may be disappointed to know, is a curve that math students generally learn about in calculus class. It doesn’t look much like a witch, or a hat or even a broomstick. It’s ...

How many people can take a calculus class? The limit does not exist. Calculus is a class that people take as a prerequisite for dozens of majors around campus and at colleges across the country. One ...

Calculus has a formidable reputation as being difficult and/or unpleasant, but it doesn’t have to be. Bringing humor and a sense of play to the topic can go a long way toward demystifying it. That’s ...

The great Greek scientist, engineer and mathematician Archimedes left us two quotes that ring through the centuries. His study of levers is said to have led him to remark, “Give me a place to stand, ...

Maybe the nature of this community will turn up with more responses to this thread: list the <b>Calculus</b> textbook that you used, or are using, in college (or high school, and/or the equivalent), ...