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Calculus

∫ Core Calculus

The essential sequence from limits through integration — the ideas that power all of modern science and engineering.

6 concepts— start at the top and work your way down
  1. 1

    Limits

    The foundational idea of calculus — what a function approaches as its input gets arbitrarily close to a value.

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  2. 2

    Lebesgue Integral

    A more powerful way to integrate than Riemann's — slice the range instead of the domain, making sense of integrals that the Riemann integral can't handle.

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  3. 3

    Derivatives

    The instantaneous rate of change of a function — defined as the limit of the difference quotient and interpreted as the slope of a tangent line.

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  4. 4

    Integrals

    The integral as accumulated area — Riemann sums, definite integrals, and the antiderivative as an operation that reverses differentiation.

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  5. 5

    Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

    The bridge connecting differentiation and integration — why antiderivatives compute areas and why the two operations are inverses of each other.

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  6. 6

    Applications of Integration

    Computing areas between curves, volumes of solids of revolution, arc lengths, and other accumulated quantities.

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