“Too Much Calculus” by Gilbert Strang, who taught me linear algebra in the late Victorian era and is still at it. Linear algebra is what we use for everything in the real world. Calculus is elegant, but you’ll never actually have to solve an integral. http://www-math.mit.edu/~gs/papers/essay.pdf …
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yeah, but the things you do with it often require calculus intuition, right? Numerical integration of ODEs, root finding? sorry, calculus is so pretty that I'm easily trolled by this :)
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Didn’t mean to troll (unusable for me); I guess I was just unclear. The concepts are imperative and when I’m World Dictator will be forced on everyone continuously from age 8.
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