Know What I Did Last Winter?

You guessed it.

Not even going through the material on two different occasions back in school times made me halfway start to appreciate the magnificience of this material. And only recently this winter did I realize it was in fact my main math hang-up and dove back in.

I’m still getting started, weirdly, but I’m starting to feel it strongly now, the sheer power. I have to suspect this material especially lends itself to a self-study pace and patience.

Why Calculus Is Extremely Potent Stuff

calculus is the mathematics of change (!) and of changing change (!)

Which is to say you can work very precisely

with phenomena that change in a changing way* (soo impressive)

and that is just a gift that keeps on giving.

*) And you can even work with the change of the change of the change…

MATERIALS USED

  • Calculus (Varberg)
  • Infinite Powers (Stephen Strogatz)
    • on my third or fourth read-through, just keeps getting better
    • really delivers on overview, justification and context
    • surprisingly even more valuable after learning the details
  • The Math Sorcerer’s Calculus 1 in One Video (awesome for review)
  • 3Blue1Brown’s The Essence of Calculus Playlist
  • Dr Trefor’s Calculus 1 Playlist
  • Desmos online graph calculator (impressive)
  • Paperstyle A4 Plain (high quality physical notebook)
  • UniPin and Micron pens 0.2 and 0.1
  • earmuffs (construction style)
  • airplane mode
  • timer (for pomodoro)
  • thick skin or tight lips (discipline is offensive)