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Yep, it’s like teaching someone how to cook by quizzing them on recipes. I didn’t understand the purpose of calculus until grad school despite having “learned”
by jdgoesmarching 5y ago
Yep, it’s like teaching someone how to cook by quizzing them on recipes. I didn’t understand the purpose of calculus until grad school despite having “learned” it several times by that point.
- jacobolus 5y agoIf anyone wants a book focusing on the purpose of calculus, check out http://www.math.smith.edu/~callahan/intromine.html http://www.math.smith.edu/~callahan/intromine.html This is significantly different style from Russian textbooks. If you want a nice one of those translated into English (albeit not the easiest to find a paper copy of), I like Piskunov’s book. https://archive.org/details/n.-piskunov-differential-and-integral-calculus-mir-1969 https://archive.org/details/n.-piskunov-differential-and-int...