CALCULUS I

MATH 121 C and D
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Fall 2007

Professor Michael Olinick

Everyone knows that if you want to do physics or engineering, you had better be good at mathematics. More and more people are finding out that if you want to work in certain areas of economics or biology, you had better brush up on your mathematics.

Mathematics has penetrated sociology, psychology, medicine and linguistics. . .it has been infiltrating the field of history. Why is this so? What gives mathematics its power? What makes it work?

. . .The universe expresses itself naturally in the language of mathematics. The force of gravity diminishes as the second power of the distance; the planets go around the sun in ellipses, light travels in a straight line. . . Mathematics  has evolved precisely as a symbolic counterpart of this universe. It is no wonder then, that mathematics works: that is exactly its reason for existence. The universe has imposed mathematics upon humanity. . .

Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh

 The Mathematical Experience