Calculus is "intuitively obvious." At least that's what they told me when I enrolled in a college calc course a gazillion years ago. In my case, it turned out not to be so true. But mathematics in all its complex forms speaks to some people as if it were a secret intuitive language. That's an idea that has been explored in films as varied as Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and Hidden Figures. Yet the working min…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:02AM on April 17, 2026