Introducing Mathematics by Ziauddin Sardar

Author:Ziauddin Sardar
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781848312975
Publisher: Icon Books

We can also take the derivative of the derivative to obtain the second derivative – in our example of the vehicle on the road, the second derivative will give us the rate of change of velocity, or acceleration.

Phew!... That was a bit complex, wasn’t it?

Watch out, there’s another bit of analysis coming up

INTEGRATION

Now we come to the masterstroke, the relationship that made “the calculus” the most powerful mathematical formalism ever.

Crucial to it were the two sorts of problems of the properties of curves, one involving the curve as a whole and the other involving the curve at a single point.

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