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Coursera: Professor Profile: Jim Fowler, Ohio State University
Editor’s note: Professor Jim Fowler from the Ohio State University is teaching Calculus One. If you have never seen calculus before (but always wanted to) and have taken algebra at a high school level, this course is for you. We asked Professor Fowler to tell us a little more about his course and himself. You can sign-up for his January 7th courses here. Q: Tell us a bit about yourself. A:I’ve got a two year old, so I’m preparing to have the difficult conversation where I reveal that squares are, despite appearances, rectangles. Q: What course are you teaching? I’m teaching Calculus One. Q: What kinds students should be interested in your course? A:If you’ve never seen calculus before but you know some high school algebra, you should enroll right now. Calculus is beautiful, but it is also super useful. Numbers come up all the time, and calculus strengthens our intuition for those numbers. What’s the square root of 1,000,001? Why&rsqu…