(August 24, 2016 at 5:46 pm)Alex K Wrote: It's more intuitive if you look at it the other way around - If you look at how the integral function F (as a function of the upper bound of the integral) arises geometrically as the area under the curve f, I find it very intuitive that the rate of change of the function F is given by the height of the graph of f. The larger f is at a point, the quicker the area, and hence F, increases when integrating a bit further.
Oh, wow. I never looked at it that way. That helps me a LOT. Thanks!