On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 08:42:35PM -0600, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Thanks, Russ, 
> 
> I appreciate the help. 
> 
> Myself, I never got the "primary directive" of the calculus, or whatever it
> is called (that integration is the inverse of differentiation) until I
> graphed it.  

Haha - its the fundamental theorem of calculus. And if you try to
differentiate a Riemann sum, the fundamental theorem is pretty
obvious. Not sure that graphing it would be convincing, however, even
though I'm generally a fan of pictures.

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