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High school senior Aditya Velamuri taught himself calculus when he was living in India. When he moved to Texas last year, he started tutoring fellow students.

High school senior Aditya Velamuri taught himself calculus when he was living in India. When he moved to Texas last year, he started tutoring fellow students.

Though calculus is a notoriously difficult and abstract area of mathematics, its applications form the basis for much of modern technology, science and engineering. Prof. Steven Strogatz, applied ...

A book which aims to teach university students the basics of calculus by integrating maths lessons with a story about a zombie attack may seem a ridiculous idea, but Zombies & Calculus by Colin ...

Math frequently features in my dreams, and never in a good way. In the latest nightmare I was punted back to high school to retake precalculus. I sat there, embarrassed, hoping to will myself into ...

One of the books that is being given a rebirth is on differential calculus (‘Vagai Nunkanitham’ in Tamil), a tough part in mathematics. Sankaranarayanan, drafted for the task, said, “It is ...