How importance in calculus in high school?

bovertine
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:42:13 +0000

I am completely flabbergasted that technically based college calculus courses do not teach epsilon delta or the mean value theorem. Do they teach the Fundamental Theorem of the Calculus? Do they do any kind of proof for it?

When I was in school this was what the math department was notorious for. When I took Complex Analysis in the Math Department, required for Physics majors at the time, it was a PITA mainly because of all this Math department proofy type stuff I really couldn’t get and never used.

When we took Methods of Mathematical Physics (applied math for Physicists) they made it clear we wouldn’t be bothering with all those proofs, and we would be making a lot of approximations that would give math majors the vapors.