Why is calculus so ... EASY ?

2022-07-16

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Calculus made easy, the Mathologer way :)

00:00 Intro

00:49 Calculus made easy. Silvanus P. Thompson comes alive

03:12 Part 1: Car calculus

12:05 Part 2: Differential calculus, elementary functions

19:08 Part 3: Integral calculus

27:21 Part 4: Leibniz magic notation

30:02 Animations: product rule

31:43 quotient rule

32:18 powers of x

33:10 sum rule

33:52 chain rule

34:54 exponential functions

35:30 natural logarithm

35:56 sine

36:32 Leibniz notation in action

36:43 Creepy animations of Thompson and Leibniz

37:00 Thank you!

Online version of Silvanus P. Thompson's book "Calculus made easy" at Project Gutenberg:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283

There is also a version of this book annotated by the great Martin Gardner. That's the one to get if you after a hardcopy.

https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/dp/0333772431

Paranormal distribution maths t-shirt:

https://tinyurl.com/2p6x5jre for other versions of the same idea google "paranormal distribution math t-shirt"

Creepy animations: https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia

Music: Morning mandolin by Chris Haugen and Game changer by ikoliks.

Thank you very much to Eduardo Ochs for his subtitles in Brazilian Portuguese.

Burkard