The Decline of Calculus—The Rise of Discrete Mathematics

Anthony Ralston
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Anthony Ralston: State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Computer Science

A chapter in Mathematics Tomorrow, 1981, pp 213-220 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Calculus is one of the great triumphs of the human intellect. For this reason alone no educated person should be without some knowledge of it. When, in addition, you consider the panoply of intellectual and practical conquests of classical analysis, whose foundation is calculus, it is small wonder that calculus has been for so long the basis of all college mathematics study. It may well surprise the reader then that the purpose of this essay is to argue that the position of calculus in the college mathematics curriculum is ripe for change and, to a degree, decline.

Keywords: Classical Analysis; Mathematics Curriculum; Calculus Sequence; Discrete Analysis; Human Intellect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-8127-3_21

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