(via Numberphile) This video features Swagat Saurav Mishr discussing the research of Professor P.P.Divakaran, and the very early history of calculus in India.

After writing a groundbreaking math textbook, Maria Agnesi quit math for good Evelyn Lamb The witch of Agnesi, you may be disappointed to know, is a curve that math students generally learn about in ...

Calculus was not born in a classroom, it was born in a fight. Isaac Newton developed fluxions in private during the plague ...

Calculus is historically a gatekeeper course for science, engineering, technology and math fields: if a student fails calculus, it’s do-not-pass go. Even non-STEM majors who enroll in calculus face ...