<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397732" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Calculus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Zero divided by one is zero, <br>but it bothered me <br>from my first conception <br>of mathematics<br>that one cannot <br>be divided by zero<br>and that it is incalculable.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I found Calculus<br>new horizons <br>opened for me<br>and I saw mathematics<br>in another light<br>and I could find<br>how one approaches zero<br>and suddenly<br>Algebra became clearer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At first the Calculus dragon<br>tried to incinerate me<br>and lengths, volumes and areas<br>looked like madness to me, <br>but later I understood the functions<br>and derivatives<br>and exponents<br>and logarithmic functions<br>became clear to me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I understood that real numbers<br>have no greatest<br>or smallest number<br>and that there’s always<br>a larger number<br>that goes on infinitely.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Limits, gradients and curves, <br>maximum and minimum values<br>of functions<br>and rates of change<br>and integration and differentiation<br>made that I<br>could write my own formulas<br>and could solve problems<br>that where unsolvable before<br>and the Calculus dragon<br>protected me<br>and became my pet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397732" data-title="Calculus de Gert Strydom" data-description="Zero divided by one is zero, but it bothered me from my first conception of mathematics that one cannot be divided by zero and that it is incalculable. When I found Calculus new horizons opened for me and I saw mathematics in another light a..."></div> </div> </div>

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