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Understanding the Essence of Calculus
“ Without Mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is Mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.”- Shakuntala Devi (The Human Calculator)
“CALCULUS IS THE MATHEMATICS OF CHANGE”
In this Article I will not cover the traditional Calculus where we just see lot of formulas and theorems and plug those formulas in some equations to calculate the answer, rather we will dig deeper to understand what actually Calculus is ? Where we are actually using these concepts to solve problems in Data Science domain, which we earlier thought are just for getting marks in our school exams.(At least I thought of that :)
I think it is always a good way to understand, why this concept was discovered at the very first place. Why there was a need for this concept like Calculus. Lets understand from the very beginning…
1. WHAT IS CALCULUS ?
The word Calculus is a Latin word meaning “small pebbles”. Calculus is originally called infinitesimal calculus or “the…
