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Monthly Archives: August 2006

The area under the curve

03-Aug-06

I was skimming through one of my favorite textbooks, which goes through elementary and vector calculus entirely in terms of differential forms, and remembered a passage from it that’s been niggling at me ever since I first read it.
First, it gives a fairly standard statement of the fundamental theorem of calculus:

Let F(t) be a function […]