Calculus is part of the acclaimed Art of Problem Solving curriculum designed to challenge high-performing middle and high school students. Calculus covers all topics from a typical high school or first-year college calculus course, including: limits, continuity, differentiation, integration, power series, plane curves, and elementary differential equations. The text is written to challenge students at a much deeper level than a traditional high school or first-year college calculus course.

The book includes hundreds of problems, ranging from routine exercises to extremely challenging problems drawn from major mathematics competitions such as the Putnam Competition and the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament. Many of the problems have full, detailed solutions in the text, and the rest have full solutions in the accompanying Solutions Manual.