The three body problem is famous for being impossible to solve. But actually it's been solved many times, and in ingenious ways. Some of those solutions are incredibly useful, and some are incredibly bizarre.
The Fourier series is a way of portraying any function as the sum of a bunch of sine waves of varying magnitude. Put another way, it is a manner of drawing with circles.
MATLAB is a programming platform designed to analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications, using the MATLAB language, a matrix-based language allowing natural expression and computation of mathematical functions.
The language, apps, and built-in math functions enable you to quickly explore multiple approaches to arrive at a solution. MATLAB lets you take your ideas from research to production by deploying to enterprise applications and embedded devices, as well as integrating with Simulink® and Model-Based Design.
Calculus is the study of how things change, typically over time.
About the Instructor:
Herb Gross has taught math as senior lecturer at MIT and was the founding math department chair at Bunker Hill Community College. He is the developer of the Mathematics As A Second Language website, providing arithmetic and algebra materials to elementary and middle school teachers.