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The focus and themes of the Introduction to Calculus course address the most important foundations for applications of mathematics in science, engineering and commerce. The course emphasises the key ideas and historical motivation for calculus, while at the same time striking a balance between theory and application, leading to a mastery of key threshold concepts in foundational mathematics. Students taking Introduction to Calculus will: • gain familiarity with key ideas of precalculus, including the manipulation of equations and elementary functions (first two weeks), • develop fluency with the preliminary methodology of tangents and limits, and the definition of a derivative (third week), • develop and practice methods of differential calculus with applications (fourth week), • develop and practice methods of the integral calculus (fifth week)....

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OM

Sep 27, 2020

I have completed quite a few courses on Coursera. This is by far the best instructor. I really hope David is going to do teach another Coursera course soon - I will sign up regardless of the content!

JR

Jul 21, 2020

The course is amazing, the teacher is incredible that makes the course be cooler and easier to do it. I enjoyed a lot the experience and certainly will help me to develop my professional career.

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Nov 25, 2021

I passed Calc 1 & 2 in college, but that was many years (and lost brain cells) ago. Overall, I think the curriculum is well structured and organized. Great alignment between setting of expectations and content. Fwiw, I had little trouble with concepts of Calculus. The required knowledge and skills in algebraic manipulation, however, found me often spending quite a few hours watching YouTube videos to relearn the, "basics."

The primary reason I took this course was because my memory of Calculus in college is one of rote learning: i.e., a hurdled gateway to the Econ, Stat's and Econometrics courses I took en route to my BA in Econ. I truly enjoyed the much better understanding I gained this time around of the connectivity between Geometry, Trig and Calculus. It all just makes so much more sense now.

I am very grateful to have had this opportunity to relearn the foundationsl elements of Calculus just for the sake of wanting to learn - and understand.