Calculus and Beyond: Time to Split Up?

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I think it might be time to split up "Calculus and Beyond". I can't think of many good subcategories that are broad enough though...
 
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ehrenfest said:
I think it might be time to split up "Calculus and Beyond". I can't think of many good subcategories that are broad enough though...

You could extend it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Lightyear" .

..but, seriously, folks...

you could have:
Precalculus
Introductory Calculus
Advanced Calculus and Beyond
(akin to Introductory Physics and Advanced Physics)
 
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robphy said:
You could extend it "To Infinity and Beyond".
:smile:

Precalculus
Introductory Calculus
Advanced Calculus and Beyond
I was thinking along those lines myself.

The introductory material on derivatives and integrals gets lost in the middle of ordinary and partial differential equations, tensors, differential geometry, . . . The math forum has 7 categories!

Besides algebra, trigonometry, analytical geometry, some basic linear analysis, what would precalculus embody?

Limits would go in Introductory Calculus?