What is u-substitution?

terminology soft-question

Solution 1:

I think it's because the letter $u$ is often used, for some reason, to denote the name of the function that is used in the substitution.

edit and indeed, as Qiaochu Yuan mentioned, we're talking about integration by substitution.

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