27 · The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
Chapter 27

The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus

27.1One Pattern, Many Theorems

Figure 27.1 One picture, three times. The interior is filled by a derivative, the boundary is lit by the quantity itself, and the two numbers underneath agree. Step through the tabs: only the dimension changes.
Figure 27.2 The one-variable theorem, recognised: it was internal-boundary cancellation all along. This is Chapter 25's figure with the region reduced to an interval — same holding apart, same red and blue, same refinement, same number that never moves.
Figure 27.3 Four conventions get memorised separately — the minus sign in 𝑓(𝑏) 𝑓(𝑎), counterclockwise, the right-hand rule, outward normals — and they look unrelated because their outputs have different type. They are one rule: point out of the object, and everything else is forced.

27.2A Glimpse of Differential Forms

Figure 27.4 The chapter's device applied twice in a row. A square's boundary is four oriented edges; take the boundary of those — a plus at each head, a minus at each tail — and at every corner one edge's head lands on the next one's tail. They annihilate in pairs and nothing is left at all: