In a book review from 1988 [1, p. 892] the mathematician Underwood Dudley claimed: > First-semester calculus has NO applications. That said, the central ideas

In a book review from 1988 [1, p. 892] the mathematician Underwood Dudley claimed: > First-semester calculus has NO applications. That said, the central ideas of calculus are firmly grounded in daily life (as Strang points out in the video): Differential calculus is about investigating speed (or, more generally, rate of change), and integral calculus is about investigating area. [1]: http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/0002989051112.di991736.99p03667.pdf http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/0002989051112.di99173...