Visual Dictionary Of Mathematical Fields

What is a "Calculus"?

I transferred to a US university after completing four years at a university in EU. When I moved to the US, I spoke fluent English. But I have received all my prior math and CS education in Slovak language.

The English word "calculus" sounded foreign to me. I knew I must have studied it, but I was not sure what exact field of mathematic it really was. My classmates used it in reference to many things. It seemed like every math class they ever took was calculus. So what is calculus exactly?

After looking it up, I had my "aha!" moment. Calculus is a study of change, or (as I knew it) a mathematical analysis.

How does calculus fit into the large picture? I tried to answer that in the visualization on the left.

Comments

[Gerard Brightman]

Are you the one who did this? This is really great! Good job!

[Anett]

Great visualization :)

[Petra Cross]

Yes, I did it.