What’s integration?

What’s the area of a rectangle? Easy! Width times height. Another one: what is the area of a circle? Yes! pi times the radius squared. What’s the area under a parabola? Easy!… well, not really (for now!). This is a graph of the function f(x) = x². The region in red is the area we want to calculate, and as you can see it’s bound between x=0.5 and x=1. That’s not a shape we know. It is not a circle nor a rectangle nor a triangle. It does look like… Read more What’s integration? →