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 ...
In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.
Three worksheets on integrating powers, sums and differences, trigonometric functions, exponential and logarithmic functions and using the reverse of the chain rule. Detailed solutions are included.