Calculus Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Calculus.
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“Calculus Made Easy”
“History of calculus”
“Calculating machine”
“Differential calculus”
“History of mathematics”
“I don't have a word for how it smelled. Like calculus, perhaps?”
“calculus”
“Wikipedia: Calculus”
“I recoil with dismay and horror at this lamentable plague of functions which do not have derivatives.”
“God does not care about our mathematical difficulties — he integrates empirically.”
“The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.”
“The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour. ”
“That Leibniz here (in the field of calculus) wholly uninfluenced by others, gained his crucial insights unaided, is beyond all doubt.”
“The Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.”
“Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?”
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“Calculus is the study of limits. In simple terms, a limit allows us to look at what happens to the dependent variable as the independent variable gets close to something.”
“It is here, at this very moment when the first utterly trivial differential equation is solved, that the secret form of words is revealed that makes modern science possible.”
“The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.”
“Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important … It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.”