The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool. But for hundreds of years after its invention in the 17th century, it stood on a shaky ...

Fractional calculus extends the classical notions of differentiation and integration to non-integer orders, offering an adaptable framework that is particularly well suited to modelling anomalous ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper presents a study of instructors' and students' perceptions of the knowledge to be learned about limits of functions in a college ...