Posts tagged: calculus

Today I started my linear algebra class by motivating the determinant using a little bit of history and applications. In particular I talked about determinant appearing in the change of variables in...

For a given function $f(x)$ around a point $a$, if you zoom in close enough on the graph of the function, you can't tell the difference between the curve and the tangent line to the graph of the...

I went to several talks and meetings in the past few days, and I am going to talk about some of them, but first let me start with some predicting game:

I have used several geogebra applets in my calculus class, but there's always things that you wanna do that there's no applet out there for, or you can't modify them etc. So, I decided to write my...