What does area have to do with slope? | Chapter 9, Essence of calculus

[@3blue1brown]

The next and final (for now) chapter of the series will be on Taylor series, with a small footnote on higher order derivatives coming along with it. Follow the full playlist at kzbin.info/aero/PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53DwVRMYO3t5Yr

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[@reubenfrench6288]

Darn. The single most confusing thing in all of calculus is integration by parts. I was sorta hoping you could shed some light on that.

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Those pi-creatures are a subtle, but at least for me very effective way to make the parts of the video that are non-visual have more of an impact. They do so many things, emoting how you think the audience feels at the moment (and asking questions when you want to tackle them), tracking what's going on on the screen with their eyes, pointing at stuff, ... This alone must have been so much work! You also made their various poses very expressive, and not to forget cute. I'm not really going anywhere with this other than a big "Thank you!". It's so rare so see something of such consistently high quality, much less for free!

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couldn't agree more

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@@3blue1brown I read this as "thanks for nothing!" lol

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@@3blue1brown noumerous ways... we see what you did there

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[@MrBebopbob]

Absolutely beautiful. I showed this to my teenager that just finished college calculus and he was blown away at the intuition it gave him. We need to clone you, and replace all the uninspiring math teachers in this country so kids will understand the amazing beauty of mathematics. Thanks for the hard work. Bob

[@yutaitadori7318]

Yep you are right. I think it's the primary fault of math teachers who disgrace maths by teaching it without any feel and underlying beauty.

[@demr04]

@@yutaitadori7318 The problem it's that mostly math teachers don't understand math, they just repite. I always try to prove algeabric expression and then I never forgot about the formulas because I know how to get there.

[@DarthZackTheFirstI]

@@demr04 yeah had once a math teacher who admitted to just memorize the formula during the studies without knowing how it works

[@demr04]

@@DarthZackTheFirstI very sad man. Just repeating the "bad' learning it's what those teachers do.

[@AntiCSFC]

Why are u Bobb

[@louisng114]

I think about the average of a continuous variable as shaking up a bucket of sand until it levels. Since the amount of sand is constant, the area under the curve stays the same. New shape is a rectangle with the area being the base (interval length) times the height (average value). Therefore, the average is the integral divided by the interval length. This can be extended to multiple variables.

[@connorcriss]

louisng114 that’s a very nice way to think about it!

[@burningsilicon149]

louisng114 That kind of sounds like cutting all the rectangles in the integrals so that they have the same height and then lining them up to form one large rectangle and the height of that large rectangle is your average for f(x) on the interval [a,b].That height has to be just the right value for you to be able to do that otherwise you would end up with a few rectangles that wouldn’t have the same height and they would screw up the large rectangle.

[@randomguy8461]

louisng114 I had a similar thought process only I imagined the area under the graph was some kind of ice shape that would eventually melt into a rectangle of equal area where the base is the same but the height is now uniformly the average value of the function

[@cursebr2937]

Why integrals means area

[@rahimeozsoy4244]

This idea is how I found average height

[@FacultyofKhan]

Who needs Saturday-night nightclub escapades when you have 3blue1brown's videos to keep you entertained?

[@catprincess9]

I really enjoyed your Complex Variables and Functions playlist. I hope you keep adding more videos to your repertoire. Number Theory, Real and Complex Analysis, Topology and Differential Geometry would be great! Thanks.

[@FacultyofKhan]

Thank you! I will definitely keep adding more videos (starting May 15 when my thesis is submitted), and I will take your video series suggestions into mind as well. Though next time, I would recommend commenting on my channel's discussion page. Idk if we should intrude on 3b1b's video haha

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Those who needs more than a 12 minute video to be entertained.

[@thom1218]

3b1b is great for kids, but for the Adults wanting a little more to chew on, I highly recommend Faculty of Khan's channel.

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I came here looking for better deeper insights and found little I didn't already know - The faculty of khan channel is much better in my opinion.

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You are actually the best professor i ever had. *-* Tks from Brazil.

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Sou do brasil também.

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[@gabrielpinhal8325]

Cara fez eu finalmente entender integrais

[@rique3012]

Cálculo tá fazendo mais sentido do que nunca com ele

[@Twisol]

For maximum enjoyment, take the equation at the top-left of 10:50 and ask what happens as you take (b - a) closer to 0. Well, on the left, you get the integral from a to almost-a of f(x), over a very tiny amount approaching zero; this ends up being just f(x). And on the right, you get the limit of (F(b) - F(a)) / (b - a) as (b - a) goes to 0, which is just the definition of dF(x)/dx. So f(x) = dF(x)/dx, exactly as expected!

[@SunilSkanda]

That's another good way to look at it but I still can't directly see how an integral of some function between two points equals the difference of its anti-derivative btw those points. Average, I got it but this idea, still not clicking..

[@naziajasmeen4203]

how is the left side of your mentioned eqn = f(x)?

[@vaibhav1933]

@@SunilSkanda try to make sense of this f(x) = slope of antiderivative of f(x) f(x) = slope of F(x) Take average on both sides, we get: Avg [ f(x) ] = Avg [ slope of F(x) ] That's how he got the equation he wrote on 10:50 at top left. I guess he forgot to write the statement in words. Once you get this equation LHS is area under curve (i.e. LHS is integral of f(x) ) , RHS is slope of the 'antiderivative' F(x) ) Since LHS and RHS are equal, area under any f(x) and slope of ITS antiderivative F(x) are equal.

[@saraswathyr2987]

How is lhs equal to area under curve??? Isnt lhs simply f(x)​??@@vaibhav1933

[@lcarsos]

At some point I understood math's symbology, and got good at moving around all the variables and bits of notation. This meant that I could answer homework questions, and do most test problems, but I had no intuition for what was happening. It took me many years (and failing classes a few times when I ran into a professor that cared more about understanding than good test takers) to build up an understanding for what was happening when I was shuffling all those bits around on the paper. Thanks for your really excellent videos.

[@cluelessinky]

Great stuff, thank you. I took calculus courses nearly 60 years ago and while I passed the courses I just didn’t quite get what the instructors were trying to prove. Seeing your courses has made those objectives plain. I’m well into my 70’s and am feeling a sense of loss at having missed the beauty of math but I’m taking as many of your videos and getting to appreciate what math has to offer. Again, thank you

[@jonathan.gasser]

No kidding, you are an absolute inspiration for me (I'm planning on becoming a high school teacher). This is math taught the way it should.

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IF you teach like he does then you could be a fantastic teacher

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You should study mathematics

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YES!!!

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That's awesome

[@rishavdhariwal4782]

"when you reframe the question of finding an average of a continuous value as instead finding the average slope of a bunch of tangent lines it lets you see the answer just by comparing endpoints." This was the highlight for me in this video

[@zairaner1489]

Its nice that you also show this "interpretation" of integration, because it generalizes far better to curve integrals than the normal "area" intepretation

[@matthewfuerst6456]

8 minutes in and I finally had my aha moment. This is the first thing that I’ve come across in my actual math class that I couldn’t quite reason out why it worked. It was that little animation where you had the average slope of the anti derivative graph that did it. Thank you so much

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[@ultimate01]

This series is so impressive , in normal calculus courses it’s just taught how to solve problems without making the students visualise what is actually happening . But that is really important and moreover everything starts to make sense . Thanks for making this really awesome series :)

[@Hivlik]

1:30 It seems to me that this is because, when approaching an average of a finite set of values, we have been drilled to treat it as the sum of the set over the number of terms - finding the mean of the set. This, in the cases that we've always seen in algebra, works perfectly fine, but is not the most general concept of an average. An average value is, most generally the "middle-est" value of a set - which, in the simple finite case, is very well described as a simple mean, but in finding the average of a continuous variable of course can't be approached the same way. My point is this - the definition of an "average value" does not break down when asked about an infinite set, but rather asks you, the mathematician, to broaden your idea of what an average is. In any case, your video is exceptionally made as always. Thank you for the content.

[@reesespieces5386]

This is one of the things my prof quickly brushed past. Since I’m studying math, my profs tend to go into detail about why things are the way they are, but this wasn’t one of them. When you look at the formula, it kinda just makes sense, but this video really helped me understand exactly why that is. I had to pause halfway through and go back a minute to fully understand a couple times during this video. But taking the time to pause and ponder was worth it. Thank you for these videos. They’re entertaining and I always discover something new when watching them.

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I can't believe this is free...I genuinely thank you for this. Your whole series is really amazing, the animation is also great, thank u for this

[@renzo9063]

This series really is how I perceive math. First, you are following everything and then wonder how you got where you are. You think about it for a little and suddenly it clicks and everything makes sense and you appreciate the genius behind it.

[@Jj-kf2lq]

I'm in s1 (12 years old) and don't understand any of this but I still think all your videos are amazing

[@a006delta]

I started learning this last year (12) and you would end up better, this is an amazing way to start learning the topic.

[@LaTortuePGM]

Don't worry boi, all you need is first try to understand how some graph calculator functions work such as the greek E looking letter (sigma), and then you'll understand these videos when you'll be 15 like me.

[@Jj-kf2lq]

I love maths and knowing I will be able to understand complecated things like this makes me very excited!

[@LaTortuePGM]

When you know this, it gets easy af. The integral is basically the average of an infinite amount of infinitely long vertical lines, all starting from zero on the horizontal axis, and that were all cut on the vertical one to where they touched the curve.

[@almogbenchen6282]

ayy same.. i try to understand this stuff but im pretty sure i need to upgrade my processor

[@athpylom]

I have come back to this video 8 times or so over the past 4-5 years, just to get the feeling of satisfaction from watching 8:01 over again. It is the only thing that I reliably forget and then get the same joy from reunderstanding. I have attempted to explain this idea to other people, but have failed miserably. Thank you Grant for explaining it so well.

[@markkennedy9767]

God, Grant is just brilliant. At 2:00, he stops to identify feelings that come up in maths (getting the average of continuous values indeed feels unfamiliar) letting the student know he feels this too and it's ok. You rarely see that in any maths. exposition.

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how about encouragement instead of discouragement?

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Essence of non euclidean geometry (hyperbolic geometry perhaps) or topology.

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Medhat Mostafa I wouldn't say that's a very easy topic to do an essence series on. Non euclidean geometry and topology use a lot of advanced maths that require explanations of their own. Sure, he could probably do a video or two about it, but I doubt it'd be an essence series

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according to his patreon the next series is about probability

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non euclidean geometry

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[@mrektor]

I'm graduated in information engineering and in all my academic life i didn't see a better, clearer, more intuitive explaination of this problem (in fact, i've only been teached the theorems and proofs, without the intuitive idea, which i think it's the most important thing). It have always been a curiosity in my mind of WHY should the anti-derivative be an area. Thank you very much for the video and keep up your great work!

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My AP test for BC calc is on Monday. This series has really helped to ground many of the concepts I've learned this year in a more intuitive foundation. Thank you for all you do!

[@IslandCave]

Before even watching this video, I will say ny thoughts, I have since I was in highschool thought of the fact that a derivative is based on a slope which is dividing and an integral is based on area which is multiplying, and those are inverses of each other, so it made sense, I mentioned that do one of my highshool math teachers.

[@johnnysparkleface3096]

What you just said here is more helpful to me than anything I've seen anywhere. You stripped away all the ultra inscrutable terminology and put it in words I can understand. My question is, why does it never seem to occur to math instructors that getting to the nut of things, using good old plain English, is the only way some people (like me) will ever understand? What you said here should be the first thing out of every calculus teacher's mouth. THANK YOU, IslandCave!

[@maxwell4444]

6:04 if there were Oscar’s for KZbin the animator and 3 blue 1 brown channel would deserve it. This is beautiful and super helpful !!!!

[@FluffieWolf]

This was great I never appreciated this despite having an MPhys. The integral encodes the height of a function into the slope of another by taking the anti-derivative. It is much easier to find the average slope than the average height. We can therefore find the average height (or total area) by taking the average slope of the antiderivative. Amazing, kicking myself.

[@animeshkatyayan]

I was 15 when I studied calculus for the first time. I am 28 now. This is the first time in my life that I have understood calculus. Thanks a lot.

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Really excellent. Math is so much, with the right teachers.

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Wow, I have always been looking for intuitive explanations of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and this video has definitely fulfilled that desire. Best calculus video ever to be found. Thank you very much! Imo this is much easier to understand than any of Khan Academy's calculus videos :)

[@Drakeblood97]

I loathed math through all of middle and high school. Now I'm watching and understanding your videos on integration and Taylor series after only four semesters of catching up at college. I have my lowest grade in calc. 1 at a C+ and funny enough I don't mind, because it's my favorite course.

[@VerryBonne]

To me, the easiest way to understand this is to use some basic algebra with the base units for functions and their derivatives. So, if your function f plots distance with respect to time, you have distance (d) on the y-axis and time (t) on the x-axis. The derivative f', puts the rise/run of the original function on its y-axis, so it maps distance divided by time on the y-axis and time on x-axis. And remember that d/t is velocity. (A second derivative then would follow the same pattern and map velocity divided by time on the x-axis, which is what acceleration means). Then, area is calculated by multiplying width * height, so the area under a curve of a function is its x * y. Plugging the x and y units into our derivative function, our area is (d/t) * t. That means to calculate the area under the curve, we're both multiplying and dividing by t which cancel each other out and we just have distance left! To summarize simply, taking a derivative means dividing a function by x, then calculating the area is doing the reverse and multiplying by x.

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Yeah!

[@shashankgupta7460]

By the way, I hate statistics a lot and I don't understand a thing there.

[@entertain5205]

Oh yes! I had a great moment where it all clicked. The integral is nothing but the average of the sum of all the slopes of tangent lines of an anti derivative. Or simply average slope of an anti derivative function. Great! Thank you. Integral Calculus will be a breeze knowing this

[@patrickhodson8715]

"The integral from zero to pi of half of sin(x) with respect to x"st

[@domesday1535]

As somebody who recently finished a calculus III class, this is incredibly refreshing to watch.

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derp man It is isn’t it!I love refreshing my mind with fun and simple topics

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Okay when Im at school, I hate math, But when Im just bored on my computer, I love it. WTF!

[@connorcriss]

There’s no intuition to math given to you in school. When I learned the quadratic formula, I was never taught why it was that way, my teacher just insisted that it was.

[@fuelks]

@@connorcriss I mean, there's not really a lot of intuition to give to the quadratic formula. It's just a general solution found through luck and algebra. The correct way to teach people why the quadratic formula is that way, is "it's simpler and some expressions can be hard to factor"

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Actually it's because when you're watching math videos on your computer, you're not actually doing math

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Its weird that when you translate the dutch name for the quadratic formula litterly to english, you end up with a squarerootformula...🥴

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I think it's because 3blue1brown doesn't assign homework...

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he supports tons of KZbin channels, I've seen his name at the end of Noah Gervais videos.

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Dude's mind blowing understanding of math and the editing skill... Who are you

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This has renewed my respect for my classmates who were good at Math despite our professors ever going into visual depictions like this video does.

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Thank you very much for existing!

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SHIKHAR AMAR I don't think he can take credit for that one

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[@Jerry-lk4gk]

"We often hear that Mathmatics consists mainly of proving theorems. Is a writer's job mainly that of writting sentences?" Tom Boy

[@NovaWarrior77]

I LIKE A YEAR AFTER FIRST SEEING THIS VIDEO just now needed to figure out a problem. First it struck me that I had that sense that I needed to use an integral somehow. THEN I realized I EXACTLY needed to know the average of a continuous variable! I came right here and here It was! If i had not watched this i would have no idea that integrals could even do that! Thank you so much, bless you Grant!

[@dorol6375]

Finally, integrals like these don't feel like something I'll only understand when I'm in 11th/12th grade, but like actual approachable and even solvable things

[@dorol6375]

And 7 months after that (not now, now is 2 more months after that) I was doing calc 3

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I was struggling to understand the relation from discrete time convolution to continuous time and this just made my day :)

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5:57 "look at this graaaph"

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These videos have inspired me to study calculus on my own. In my country, the educational system sucks so we don't really get it taught to us. Thanks so much! Best decision I've made!

[@prabhadsouza1931]

You should make a video series on high grade trigonometry

[@completeandunabridged.4606]

Prabha Dsouza But it's just triangles...

[@nathanielsharabi]

Prabha Dsouza maybe he can explain the hyperbola trig functions. trig isnt just triangles it connects to allot of mathematics

[@prabhadsouza1931]

Natanel Sharabi You are right. There is more to trigonometry then just triangles like hyperbolic functions and inverse functions.

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THIS IS THE BEST SERIES ON KZbin RIGHT NOW

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Thank you professor 😄..

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I'm sad that this video series is ending so soon. I love watching the animations and hearing your soothing voice. I can't wait for what you're going to be doing next (topology would be cool)

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Shubham Shinde It's*

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@@JorgetePanete No it is it's.

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@@user-nm4ni5us8j Not that...

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Without a single doubt, the best series on KZbin.

[@ThePenitentOneArg]

We have to find those 25 people who have disliked this video...

[@Hobbit183]

No we dont. They have the right to give their opinion

[@arionfar]

He makes obvious math more complicated sometimes.

[@johnnysparkleface3096]

I'm in that bunch, except that I didn't give him a thumbs down. I didn't because I know what he's saying makes perfect sense to people who can follow all the arcane terminology, and its helpful to them. To me, the following makes ZERO sense: "By definition, sine of X is the derivative of the anti-derivative graph. It gives us the slope of negative cosine at any point." It might as well say, "the octo-quad Pi inverse anti multiplier quasi place splitting quadrant divider's anti-pi is, of course, as can easily be seen, the drawn downdrop of plus valued hyper-zip splitters." That's how insanely inscrutable all this language sounds to me, and even more depressingly for me, it's meant to turn the light bulb on in people's minds, its actually AN EXPLANATION! The animation of the slope line tilting one way and then the other is conveying something, but it isn't at all apparent to me what that might be. I realize the animation and what he's saying at the time the animation is moving go together...but nope...the light bulb did not go on for me. It's absolute jibberish to me.

[@pietrotettamanti7239]

@@johnnysparkleface3096 You can't get integrals without knowing derivatives. Heck I know derivatives and I'm still struggling. Don't feel bad if you don't get it, there's not a magic formula for understanding those things, no matter how talented is the one explaining them (and this guy is talented, I guarantee). You have to do a ton of work. It's true, in some people's minds it just clicks together as soon as they go along with him, maybe some are 15 year olds but who cares about them. Care about yourself. Don't rush to higher maths because you see that some people get it with ease, take your time. My advice is (if you want it) work your way up from basic geometry, it takes patience but you'll find out that going over the old stuff you get so many more things, and by the time you get here again it will be a breeze.

[@johnnysparkleface3096]

@@pietrotettamanti7239 Thanks for the encouragement, Pietro. Just yesterday I read a note I wrote a while back, and though I didn't understand it at the time I wrote it, I think some of it made a little sense - maybe that's a bit of the clicking you mentioned. I sure hope so. By the way, I've watched Nancy Pi''s KZbin videos, she's pretty good at explaining things. My biggest problem is me, I can think of 10 ways a person might have meant what they said. Thanks again, stay safe.

[@lastchance8142]

I finally came to this realization myself 10 years after learning Integrals. Just makes sense that all the infinite slopes taken as points perfectly describe the height of the function at every possible point. What always blows me away is how two guys discovered calculus, independently, at essentially the same time! Math is insane.

[@cicciobombo7496]

I started "studying" calculus(just to understand it, not even thinking to study all the formulas)on my own a few months ago (i'm 13 :P)...now i think maths books should be written by someone who really tries to teach it, not just to make money by putting a few formukas on a piece of paper

[@cicciobombo7496]

Elizabeth Fortanely I'm not saying that i skip all the formulaswithout even reading em, i really enjoy trying to understand them, just once i understood them I'm not interested to remember em (at the moment :D )...eg. most of the formulas for integrals(don't know their names in english) have tons things to remember (resolving an integral with the "simple fracts")nice to understand..awful to remember :D

[@balen7555]

Ciccio&Bombo You son, do not seem to understand calculus at all. When you call them formulas you prove me. Are you sure you were not just trying to show off to a bunch of friend if that you mean by studying calculus which I am sure you do not get.

[@steliostoulis1875]

Balen Amir he is 13 he isn't familiar with the notation

[@MassiveAchievement]

All "formulas" from highschool calculus are pretty easy to prove and most of them are mandatory. Actually, you need to know everything in math,every formula, everything you can get your hands on if you want to truly understand high level math.

[@sedeanimugamez5418]

Once you go into high school and learn it (again) the teachers will explain the formulas like you want and yes it is stupid for math books to do that but that would extra length to the book and essay upon essay just search it up if you don’t fully get it and get the proof on why if you are truly curious it may not be convienient but it’s the best way.Also use khan academy it’s fantastic!

[@arhanahmed8123]

One of the best video to understand relationship between area and integration. I watched like hundreds of videos but this is the only one I finally understood how area is related to integration!

[@proddreamatnight]

You're changing my life man

[@KenderGuy]

After chapter 8, this lesson really solidified the methodology of an integral. Now I know for sure I won't forget that the integral of a domain is the slope of the antiderivative over the given start and end points.

[@ashwinmiyer6159]

In fact for the car problem, before I knew how to use integrals, I thought we could just multiply the average velocity with the time. What a coincidence that the very next video was about that!

[@AzureLazuline]

I never formally took a calculus course before. In this video and the last one, as soon as you brought up a sine wave and asked about the derivative, I immediately knew the answer though! I'm a game programmer, and at some point I noticed that setting an object's position in a sine wave, and setting its SPEED in a sine wave, gave the same result! (Offset by 90 degrees though.) It's cool to know this is a documented and useful thing, rather than just a coincidence! Extending it, I'm sure that setting acceleration to a sine wave would work too, and offset it by another 90 degrees. Please keep making videos about all kinds of math, these are so good

[@fredsolo730]

That's an OMG. The answer I've been looking for years. It felt always so vague to subtract from boundaries when integrating. Math is not just some "technique" to master but the idea behind, geometrical interpretation... Thanks so much Grant!

[@eigenme9755]

In fact, this is the best video explaining the relationship between area and slope.

[@rod9152]

Man for almost a week I was having so much trouble grasping the concept of an integral and an antiderivative, but you video gave me what I needed to solidify the concept. The visualization and the explanation helped me so much thank you🙌🙏

[@albinlindmark1383]

These videos are amazing, the most well made ones on math I've ever found. Please continue to make them!!

[@DonutKop]

FINALLY a graph based geometric interpretation of the integral. It makes sense!

[@renanfreitas2364]

Thanks for your work. It isn't in vain, you are helping even a guy cursing Computer Science in Brazil!

[@noway2831]

Here's a fun example, the distribution of ants among a colony with mass x milligrams between 1 and 5 milligrams is given by -16x^2+112x-96. What is the probability that an ant's mass is less than or equal to 3 milligrams? It's the integral of -16x^2+112x-96 from 1 to 3 divided by its integral from 1 to 5. That gives the count of ants dividing the count of ants with mass 3mg or less. It turns out to be about 40%.

[@nigaraliyeva7607]

Omg! I wasted 3 hours to completely understand it. Only your video was helpful and pure to get it deeply. Thank you so much!

[@ahmedsinger9435]

Simply, u help us to imagine the process, not just filling our heads with information. That's what makes u different.

[@DontMockMySmock]

It's a really small thing, but I love how you say "pi halves" instead of "pi over two." I do that too.

[@knowledge3481]

I'm 15yr and doing high school, and I'm learning calculus just for pure curiosity, and everything make way more sense after, specially physic formulas, which almost everytime happen to come from a derivative or an integral, glad to be blessed with this video

[@instinx9154]

Yeah kinematics became wayy more intuitive when one equation became the derivative or integral of another

[@brysonpage4185]

This really helped me wrap my brain around the FTC in my Real Analysis course! Another masterclass 🙌

[@divermike8943]

An outstanding video. I personally have never seen this approach to explaining the relationship between diferential calculus (slopes) and Integral calculus (areas). The usual proofs of the 1st and 2nd Fundemental Theorems of Calculus never made things quite so clear as this. Those traditional proof seem to be a lot of alebra and formula manipulations. The Riemann sums graphs I was shown but that only explained integrals, not how those related to diferental calculus. And I've never been taught to think about the Average Value of f(x). That I think is key to the relationshp. I would suggest only one thing. Show how the average value of f(x) = sin(x) becomes 2/pi for x=0 to x=pi and also plot that on the graph of the function. After I did that myself, things were even clearer. Then show how the area under that line f(x)=2/pi is pi(2/pi) = 2. Same as the integral of f(x)=sinx becomes F(x)=-cos(x) from x=0 to x=pi. You do say it and show the equations but a picture is worth a thousand words and perhaps formulas. I was so intrigued by this video that I actually set up a spread sheet and tried averaging up 10 evenly spaced sample values of sin(x) between 0 and pi. Then I tried 20, and 40 just to see how that average converges on 0.63662 = 2/pi. It wasn't hard do with Excel.

[@pragha1]

7:50 - 8:08. Wow! I had goosebumps. What an insight!

[@shenglee133]

Thank you 3Blue1Brown! It's is always hard for me to truly understand some concepts without having a clear picture in my mind.After watching this video a few times,I finally can make connections between Mean Value Theorem and Average Value of function.

[@dienosorpo]

I love this example, i learned it from physics first. I still feel lkle the question "How does the area under a curve relate to the slope" wasnt answered tho

[@jjjj_111]

Absolutely brilliant video succeeds at linking the use of integrals to areas under a curve. Your work is appreciated more than you may ever know!

[@joshuarowe8410]

Best channel! This video was a little bit more confusing so I'm going to have to go over it again

[@Ertu300]

Calculus is wonderful, it changed my life and I'm happy for it.

[@arinsrivastava6607]

You're doing an incredible job , I find your videos entertaining and your way of explanation is absolutely fantastic imo. I'm 15 years old and next year I'm going to attend 11th grade , where calculus begins , I like maths and I'd heard from my seniors that calculus is easily one of the more tough topics that I'm gonna study in the future. But after watching Ur playlist on it im wayyyy more confident than before. Thanks a lot and keep up the good work.