Why is calculus so easy

Asked 5 years, 1 month ago. Active 3 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 62k times. Archer 5, 3 3 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 69 69 bronze badges. The problem comes up when you start dealing with transcendental numbers tan, sin, cos, etc. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. David Bowman David Bowman 5, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. The roman empire was unconcerned with pure science, and, well I dont need to repeat here the history of europe. I think within a few minutes any student would reasonably agree that the function whose domain is [0,1] is bounded and if a function on 0,1 is unbounded it's because the function approaches infinity at either 0 or 1, but nowhere else.

It all goes back to the rectangles from the wikipedia page. I do agree with you on the infinite sums though! Show 2 more comments. Meower68 Meower68 2 2 bronze badges. Rene Schipperus Rene Schipperus If you're using all your time just keeping up with the algebra, you won't be able to pay attention to the calculus.

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