Learn node: Tools to learn and do math operations

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Posted on 1st January 2008 by Judy Breck in math

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This learn node points to the page here at MIT Open Courseware for digital tools like the one illustrated above called Curves in Two Dimensions. There are more than two dozen tools for topics ranging such as precalculus, algebra and vectors, curves, surfaces and differential equations. In the MIT course with tools like the one shown are chapter outlines like this one called Curves about, as the Introduction explains:

“The tools of calculus developed so far allow us to describe most of the important properties of a smooth curve: which are its direction at any point, and how much it deviates from straightness there. This is measured by its curvature. How its path differs from planarity is measured by its torsion, also easily calculated.”

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