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One of the greatest achievements of the human mind is calculus. It justly deserves a place in the pantheon of our accomplishments with Shakespeare's plays, Beethoven's symphonies, and Einstein's theory of relativity. In fact, most of the differences in the way we experience life now and the way we experienced it at the beginning of the 17th century emerged because of technical advances that rely on calculus. Calculus is a beautiful idea exposing the rational workings of the world; it is part of our intellectual heritage. Professor Starbird is committed to correcting the bewildering way that the beauty of calculus was hidden from many of us in school. He firmly believes that calculus does not require a complicated vocabulary or notation to understand it.

Table of contents

1.	Two Ideas, Vast Implications
2.	Stop Sign Crime—The First Idea of Calculus—The Derivative
3.	Another Car, Another Crime—The Second Idea of Calculus—The Integral
4.	The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
5.	Visualizing the Derivative—Slopes
6.	Derivatives the Easy Way—Symbol Pushing
7.	Abstracting the Derivative—Circles and Belts
8.	Circles, Pyramids, Cones, and Spheres
9.	Archimedes and the Tractrix
10.	The Integral and the Fundamental Theorem
11.	Abstracting the Integral—Pyramids and Dams
12.	Buffon’s Needle or π from Breadsticks
13.	Achilles, Tortoises, Limits, and Continuity
14.	Calculators and Approximations
15.	The Best of All Possible Worlds—Optimization
16.	Economics and Architecture
17.	Galileo, Newton, and Baseball
18.	Getting off the Line—Motion in Space
19.	Mountain Slopes and Tangent Planes
20.	Several Variables—Volumes Galore
21.	The Fundamental Theorem Extended
22.	Fields of Arrows—Differential Equations
23.	Owls, Rats, Waves, and Guitars
24.	Calculus Everywhere