Introduction to Calculus Offered by The University of Sydney

About this Course

The course emphasises key ideas and historical motivation for calculus while striking a balance between theory and application, resulting in mastery of key threshold concepts in foundational mathematics.

Students enrolled in Introduction to Calculus will:

become familiar with key precalculus concepts, such as the manipulation of equations and elementary functions;
develop fluency with the preliminary methodology of tangents and limits, as well as the definition of a derivative
develop and practise methods of differential calculus with applications
develop and practice methods of the integral calculus

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David Easdown

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Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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The University of Sydney

Syllabus –

Precalculus

Functions

Introducing the differential calculus

Properties and applications of the derivative

Introducing the integral calculus