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Students pursuing or likely to pursue majors in Mathematics, Chemistry, Geophysics, Geology-Geophysics, or Physics, or following the B.S. program in Computer Science, should take one of the Calculus ...

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When I took calculus at night school with three nerdy high school friends, graphing calculators did not exist. Johns Hopkins University mathematics professor Stephen Wilson is happy for me. He says ...