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Notre Dame OpenCourseware (OCW) offers free educational resources for the course "Elements of Calculus I" in the Department of Mathematics. Topics include functions, limits, derivatives, and an introduction to integral, with interesting real-life applications throughout. This Calculus course is for students in arts and letters, architecture, or business.

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Elements of Calculus I

Professor Alex Himonas, Ph.D.

Department of Mathematics
University of Notre Dame

Course Structure: 50 minutes classes - three times per week

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Course Description

This course is for students in arts and letters, architecture, or business. It studies basic calculus as part of a liberal education. It emphasizes conceptual learning and stresses the connections between mathematics and modern society. Topics include functions, limits, derivatives, and an introduction to integral, with interesting real-life applications throughout. Students are familiarized with the many different interpretations of the derivative as a rate of change, and the integral as a total rate of change. This enables them to learn and practice modeling in a variety of situations from economics the social and the life sciences.

Citation: Himonas, A., Himonas, A. (2008, August 18). Elements of Calculus I. Retrieved February 13, 2012, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/mathematics/elements-of-calculus-i.
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