Definition of Calculus

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Calculus

Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.

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Calculus Quotations

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.
Marvin Minsky

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.
Jules H. Poincare

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
Thomas Sydenham

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.
Debi Thomas

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
Elizabeth Moon

Calculus Translations

calculus in German is Rechenart, Rechnung


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