The document discusses the concept of integration as the area under a curve. It shows how the area between two points on a curve can be estimated using rectangles, and how taking the width of each rectangle to zero results in the true area being given by the integral of the curve's equation between the two points. Specifically, the area under a curve y=f(x) from x=a to x=b is given by the integral from a to b of f(x) dx, or F(b) - F(a) where F is the antiderivative of f.