one of those weird things about math is that i “know basic calculus” in that i know the fundamental differential rules, but i feel like i don’t really “know calculus” in that i could not even begin to explain why they work
@aescling if you use the limit definition of the derivative and approximate to lowest order in dx you can straightforwardly make a physicist's derivation of all the rules like the product rule and the division rule and many differention rules like the power rule or derivatives of sines and cosines
@coriander @aescling to be perfectly honest, i cant argue with that
@coriander @aescling fun fact: i failed linear algebra in college
@wallhackio @aescling I never even took linear algebra, I barely squeaked through pre-calc, failed calc 1, and then changed majors and then dropped out and went to community college where I could take good old regular algebra and then never need to take math again
@coriander @aescling in my opinion they should ban going to college if you have undiagnosed ADHD
@wallhackio @aescling Pffft, could a person with undiagnosed ADHD do THIS?
-puts off a 5-page paper for weeks, then writes it all in a single night, somehow still getting a B+-
@coriander @aescling this just gave me vietnam flashbacks
@wallhackio @aescling Part of it is that I failed calc 1 in college