@cam @Lucy i just noticed lucy's masto profile and was scrolling through toots until i saw your blasphemous opinion

@wallhackio @Lucy I don’t actually hate integration by parts I think my brain converted integration by parts to Taylor polynomials which have nothing to do with anything

@Lucy @wallhackio I just haven’t taken calculus since high school and only used it briefly when I took quantum mechanics in college

@cam @Lucy that's fair, calculus is for nerds and wonks

@wallhackio @Lucy I didn’t even take linear algebra

@cam @Lucy i hated linear algebra until i took other classes that used it and now i think its cool

@cam @Lucy in physics land you learn to love "expanding to first order" which is code for "use taylor expansion"

_{(technically it's a truncated taylor expansion for the sake of approximation)}