what is calculus?

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math

Answer 1

Calculus,
branch of mathematics that studies continuously changing quantities. The calculus is characterized by the use of infinite processes, involving passage to a limit-the notion of tending toward, or approaching, an ultimate value. The English physicist Isaac Newton and the German mathematician G. W. Leibniz, working independently, developed the calculus during the 17th cent. The calculus and its basic tools of differentiation and integration serve as the foundation for the larger branch of mathematics known as analysis. The methods of calculus are essential to modern physics and to most other branches of modern science and engineering.

Answer 2

Calculus is NOT a branch of mathematics. The calculus is a tool like a calculator. Saying calculus is a branch of math is like saying addition is a branch of mathematics. Isaac Newton invented the differential calculus because he need a tool to use in order to explain and describe his theories on motion and gravity. Even simple arithmetic is a calculus for doing simple mathematical operations. Other in history have created different tools for different situations which all are usually covered in one form or another of a class on using the calculus--which I have found is always easier to take when also taking the corresponding physics class so you can see what it applies to.

Answer 3

More specifically, math focusing on how things change over time, especially the slope of a line on a curve. Like the letter "U". The slope on either side is very steep, but in the middle it actually levels out and the slope becomes zero. Calculus is a tool to determine the slope of a curve at any given point.

Answer 4

Math. a method of calculation, esp. one of several highly systematic methods of treating problems by a special system of algebraic notations, as differential, integral, or infinitesimal calculus. calculus of finite differences, Math. the branch of mathematics dealing with the application of techniques similar to those of differential and integral calculus to discrete rather than continuous quantities. calculus of variations, Math. the branch of mathematics that deals with the problem of finding a curve or surface that maximizes or minimizes a given expression, usually with several restrictions placed on the desired curve.

Answer 5

There are two branches, differential and integral.
Differential is about slopes and rates that one variable changes at with respect to another.
Integral is about finding areas and volumes of mathematically defined shapes.
They are inverse processes. If you integrate the derivative you get back the original function.

Answer 6

In Latin, calculus means calculation.

Answer 7

Besides torture?

The branch of mathematics that deals with limits and the differentiation and integration of functions of one or more variables.

Answer 8

HARD....end of story

Answer 9

complicated math u'll never use ...

Answer 10

really really hard