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Calculus always eluded me. Integration and differentiation came like the next step in school. You learned addition and subtraction, and its rules, then multipl
by k__ 5y ago
Calculus always eluded me.
Integration and differentiation came like the next step in school. You learned addition and subtraction, and its rules, then multiplication and division and its rules, etc. This went on and built on each other until you learned integration and differentiation.
Both had rules that weren't conceptually much more difficult than what came before, but in university it didn't help that I understood all this.
In the end I had to learn some tricks to find out how to modify a formula so I could integrate them. I would walk in circles all the time and end up with the same formula.
- lr4444lr 5y agoThe missing intuitive link for me was the limit. I did not really understand calculus as a concept, a thing of distinct abstracted value, until I learned it starting from the idea of the limit, continuity, and how it differed from actual computation of specific values of a function.