Calculus: A word that triggers involuntary fear spasms in the best of us. But the days of slogging through tedious textbook derivatives are over, if you want them to be. For the past few years, people ...

Learn your trigonometry, kids, and you might find yourself animating the next “Finding Nemo.” That was the message Tony DeRose, senior scientist at Pixar Animation Studios, spread to a mixed-aged ...