calculus

Average grades in preparatory math, precalculus and calculus across UC continue their five-year decline, while D and F grades, no-pass marks and withdrawals in those courses have gone up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

A few weeks later my dad saw “Stand and Deliver,” the inspiring movie about high-school math teacher Jaime Escalante, who pushed his inner-city students to excel in Advanced Placement calculus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

To this day, his calculus for greenlighting any major production seems to come down to how vastly one’s star power burns.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026

So right off the bat, that changes the calculus in your question.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Do you know what calculus is, young lady?” he asked, in the manner of a person who is hiding something frightening in one of his hands.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”.

From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2019

Midway through Infinite Powers, Steven Strogatz writes that Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”.

From Nature ● Apr. 1, 2019

Concreta, coagulated from particles agglutinated at random; as urinary and salivary calculi; tartar of wine; pumice, formed by fire; stalactite, formed by air; tophus, produced under water, as oolite.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

The Gall-Bladder.—The formation of biliary calculi in the gall-bladder is the chief point of interest here.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

Sometimes the passage of the bile is obstructed by calculi, or gall-stones; they have been found in great numbers in oxen.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd

“Do I think I underestimated some factors and overestimated some others? Sure. Do I think that there were calculations and calculuses that I made? Yes,” Porter went on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024