What they won't teach you in calculus
A visual for derivatives which generalizes more nicely to topics beyond calculus. Problem-driven learning by Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/3b1b Essence of ...
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3Blue1Brown [Classical music] Picture yourself as an early calculus student about to begin your first course: The months ahead of you hold within them a lot of hard work Some neat examples, some not so neat examples, beautiful connections to physics, not so beautiful piles of formulas to memorise, plenty of moments of getting stuck and banging your head into a wall, a few nice 'aha' moments sprinkled in as well, and some genuinely lovely graphical intuition to help guide you through it all. But if the course ahead of you is anything like my first introduction to calculus or any of the first courses that I've seen in the years since, there's one topic that you will not see, but which I believe stands to greatly accelerate your learning. You see almost all of the visual int...
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3Blue1Brown [Classical music] Picture yourself as an early calculus student about to begin your first course: The months ahead of you hold within them a lot of hard work Some neat examples, some not so neat examples, beautiful connections to physics, not so beautiful piles of formulas to memorise, plenty of moments of getting stuck and banging your head into a wall, a few nice 'aha' moments sprinkled in as well, and some genuinely lovely graphical intuition to help guide you through it all. But if the course ahead of you is anything like my first introduction to calculus or any of the first courses that I've seen in the years since, there's one topic that you will not see, but which I believe stands to greatly accelerate your learning. You see almost all of the visual int...
