In the Idea of Limits video, we introduce the idea of limits and discuss how it underpins all of the major concepts in calculus. In the Limit Laws video, we introduce the limit laws and discuss how to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Let $\{f_k\}$ be a sequence of continuous real valued functions defined on an interval $I$ and $N$ a fixed ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...