Calculus is one of the grandest achievements of human thought, explaining everything from planetary orbits to the optimal size of a city to the periodicity of a heartbeat. This brisk course covers the core ideas of single-variable Calculus with emphases on conceptual understanding and applications.

Distinguishing features of the course include:

• the introduction and use of Taylor series and approximations from the beginning
• a novel synthesis of discrete and continuous forms of Calculus
• an emphasis on the conceptual over the computational
• a clear, dynamic, unified approach.

• Prof. Robert Ghrist, Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Mathematics and Electrical & Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.