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Many people find mathematics
very, very frightening.

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From my point of view,
there's no need for that.

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And one thing people
often find particularly

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frightening is something
called calculus.

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Calculus is an
absolutely crucial tool

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in understanding the
design and the performance

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of motor racing vehicles,
from how much fuel

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is going to be consumed
to the downforce

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as you go along the straight
and around a corner.

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On this MOOC you'll be studying
the two key ideas of calculus--

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that is, differentiation
and integration.

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Differentiation is all
about how things change.

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Integration's about how we
put all these little changes

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together to decide what
happens in the future.

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In particular, we'll be looking
at who is the world's fastest

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motor racing driver, why does
the Earth go around the Sun,

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and how do we put
a man on the moon.

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Leicester's already got a lot of
experience in delivering MOOCs,

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and this is all built on a long
history of Leicester University

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providing
distance-learning courses

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across a wide range of subjects.

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Our academics are creating
distance-learning materials

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all the time.

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Mathematics is a fantastic
tool for answering

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some of the most interesting
and strange questions

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from the world.

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For instance, how do we
put a man on the moon?

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Or why, when we make a football
of pentagons and hexagons,

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do we need exactly 12 pentagons?

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That's why I love mathematics.

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