Introduction to Calculus

Harvard FAS

Calculus stands as one of the great intellectual achievements of the last millennium, developed by Newton and Leibniz to understand motion, growth, and change. This single-variable course introduces you to that achievement by focusing on these central ideas: how differential calculus describes rates of change, how integral calculus describes accumulation, and how the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus connects them. Throughout, you will see these ideas at work in concrete problems drawn from the…