Gil Strang's Introduction to Calculus for Highlights for High School
Gil Strang gives an overview of his video series Calculus for MIT's Highlights for High School program. Designed to give an easier introduction to calculus.
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PROFESSOR: Hi, I'm Gilbert Strang, and I'm a math professor at MIT. And I hope these highlights of calculus will be helpful. I started the project this year, because the linear algebra lectures which were in class have been watched by a lot of people on OpenCourseWare. And so I looked at what there was for calculus. And I saw two or three types of things. One was lectures, sort of very serious, too mathy. And another was supported by foundations, an effort to make math look so terrifically exciting and wonderful and connect with everything. And yet, I feel a lot of people are taking math courses, calculus, in high school, in college, and simply want a little help to see what's the main point. And maybe that's the idea of these lectures, is to try to tell you the ma...
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PROFESSOR: Hi, I'm Gilbert Strang, and I'm a math professor at MIT. And I hope these highlights of calculus will be helpful. I started the project this year, because the linear algebra lectures which were in class have been watched by a lot of people on OpenCourseWare. And so I looked at what there was for calculus. And I saw two or three types of things. One was lectures, sort of very serious, too mathy. And another was supported by foundations, an effort to make math look so terrifically exciting and wonderful and connect with everything. And yet, I feel a lot of people are taking math courses, calculus, in high school, in college, and simply want a little help to see what's the main point. And maybe that's the idea of these lectures, is to try to tell you the ma...
