The more I teach linear algebra, the more I think that perhaps it -- and not calculus -- ought to be the standard introductory math course for those majoring in “technical” fields (science ...

This is the second post (here’s the first one) about an approach to introducing the derivative to calculus students that is counter to what I’ve seen in textbooks and other traditional treatments of ...

Such functions are called linear, for reasons that I'll explain soon enough (well, we generally want another condition for linear functions involving scalar multiples of the variable, but I'll ...