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October Sky

"Sir, you are asking questions that are more in the nature of analytical geometry and calculus," he said, mining away from the blackboard to eye me over his half-glasses.†
Chpt 10

" "There's calculus in there and differential equations," Miss Riley said.†
Chpt 13

"I'd like to learn calculus too," she said.†
Chpt 13

Finally, he said, "There's a lot of theory in here that presumes the reader already knows subjects we haven't had, chief among them, I suspect, thermodynamics and calculus.†
Chpt 14

"To get all that we need to know from this book," I said, "we're going to have to learn calculus."
Chpt 14 *

calculus = the branch of mathematics that is concerned with continuously changing values

" "I want to learn calculus," Sherman said simply, and then O'Dell and Billy said they did too.†
Chpt 14

How can you expect to learn calculus when you didn't understand algebra?"†
Chpt 15

But it's unlikely we could teach ourselves calculus.†
Chpt 15

Big Creek will offer a class in calculus.†
Chpt 15

I remembered when I had shown her my rocket book and she had said how much she, too, wanted to learn calculus.†
Chpt 15

"I'll teach you calculus," Quentin said.†
Chpt 15

"My grades weren't good enough to get into calculus class.†
Chpt 15

Its index included several chapters on differential equations and calculus.†
Chpt 15

"Studying calculus," I replied.†
Chpt 16

"You told me Mr. Turner wasn't going to let you take calculus," he said in an accusing voice.†
Chpt 16

"If you're not getting your class, why are you learning calculus on your own?"†
Chpt 16

Auk XXIII was going to be the first rocket to be based on the sum total of Miss Riley's book, the calculus that Quentin had learned in Mr. Hartsfield's class and that I had learned on my own, coupled with the practical knowledge we had gained through two years of failure and success.†
Chpt 22

You had the calculus class, Quentin.†
Chpt 22

You know calculus as well as I do.†
Chpt 22

On the night before I was to leave for Indianapolis, Quentin spent the night at my house, not letting me sleep, drilling me incessantly on the details of the trigonometry, calculus, physics, chemistry, and differential equations we used for our rocket designs.†
Chpt 25

Everything that had happened--our rockets, Mr. Bykovski, Cape Coalwood, calculus, even poor Daisy Mae--had all been leading up to this judgment, and now, even though I already knew I wasn't going to win, I had this terrible sense of a chain of inevitable events leading toward some conclusion being broken.†
Chpt 25

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Definition:

(calculus as used in reasoning or mathematics)
any system or process used to calculate values or to reason

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the branch of mathematics that is concerned with continuously changing values

editor's notes: Calculus is commonly studied after algebra and trigonometry. Unless one is majoring in a math-intensive field, calculus (or perhaps statistics) is typically the last type of mathematics class a well-educated student take.