> Do you know calculus? Well you'd better learn it. It's the language god speaks. > -- [[Richard P. Feynman|Feynman]] Calculus invokes the power of infinity to break difficult problems into smaller ones, solve them, and then combine them together again. This principle was used by [[Archimedes]] to calculate the area under a curve, by [[Newton]] to characterize motion, and by ... Differential versus integral calculus See [[lit/books/Infinite Powers]] by [[Steven Strogatz]] for an introduction to the history and intuition of calculus.