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So
calculus
has traditionally been taught very late.
SK: We now have on the order of 2,200 videos, covering everything from basic arithmetic, all the way to vector calculus, and some of the stuff that you saw up there.
This is actually from one of the original
calculus
videos.
If Isaac Newton had done YouTube videos on calculus, I wouldn't have to.
And the idea is you fast forward and good students start failing algebra all of the sudden, and start failing
calculus
all of the sudden, despite being smart, despite having good teachers, and it's usually because they have these Swiss cheese gaps that kept building throughout their foundation.
This is the same mental
calculus
that hundreds of millions of men and women have gone through.
It's a type of fossilized dental plaque that is called officially dental
calculus.
And what's really important about dental
calculus
is that it fossilizes just like the rest of the skeleton, it's abundant in quantity before the present day and it's ubiquitous worldwide.
They'd looked at dental
calculus
under a microscope, and what they had found was things like pollen and plant starches, and they'd found muscle cells from animal meats and bacteria.
And so by applying ancient DNA sequencing and protein mass spectrometry technologies to ancient dental calculus, we can generate immense quantities of data that then we can use to begin to reconstruct a detailed picture of the dynamic interplay between diet, infection and immunity thousands of years ago.
And I hope I have convinced you of the value of dental
calculus.
I finally got around to
calculus
as a 32-year-old tenured professor at Harvard, where I sat uncomfortably in classes with undergraduate students, little more than half my age.
I swallowed my pride, and I learned
calculus.
She still poops in her diapers and she can't do
calculus.
So for them, the
calculus
must be quite different.
But there's a whole other Portland story, which isn't part of this calculus, which is that young, educated people have been moving to Portland in droves, so that between the last two censuses, they had a 50-percent increase in college-educated millennials, which is five times what you saw anywhere else in the country, or, I should say, of the national average.
I say here that Newton did a lot of things that year: gravity, the laws of motion, the calculus, white light composed of all the colors of the rainbow.
Indeed they would say religion is based on faith or maybe the
calculus
of Pascal's wager.
It was towards the end of the 17th century, the philosopher Leibniz who asked it, a very smart guy, Leibniz, who invented the
calculus
independently of Isaac Newton, at about the same time, but for Leibniz, who asked why is there something rather than nothing, this was not a great mystery.
I might know, you know, Cantor's idea that some infinite sets are larger than other infinite sets, but I didn't really understand the
calculus
behind that idea.
And so now I do know at least some of the
calculus
that underlies all of that stuff.
Follow the
calculus
tag on Tumblr, and yes, you will see people complaining about calculus, but you'll also see people re-blogging those complaints, making the argument that
calculus
is interesting and beautiful, and here's a way in to thinking about the problem that you find unsolvable.
Invented calculus."
For example, once I had an affair with
calculus
that lasted longer than some celebrity marriages.
No calculus, I'll cut out that.
We are the only species able to understand
calculus
or build telescopes.
Or they'd get to a
calculus
class, and they'd be a little bit shaky on the algebra.
But if I were to ask you a similar question: "What percentage of the population do you think is capable of truly mastering calculus, or understanding organic chemistry, or being able to contribute to cancer research?"
And so I started reading
calculus
books for fun.
He had mastered
calculus
on his own by the age of 15 and done well at both his Munich secondary school and at the Swiss Polytechnic, where he studied for a math and physics teaching diploma.
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