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Great, another tool that decreases my motivation to actually work on sharpening my lagging calc skills.
by shmageggy 13y ago
Great, another tool that decreases my motivation to actually work on sharpening my lagging calc skills.
- ivan_ah 13y agoI'd say you still need the calc skills so you'll know what you're doing: sympy helps with demos, explorations, and tedious calculations, but not with the theory. For example, here's a little demo that shows that integration is the "undo" operation of differentiation http://bit.ly/1dDD4dc http://bit.ly/1dDD4dc but that won't make you really understand the fundamental theorem of calculus[1]. ____________________ [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calculus#Physical_intuition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calculus...
- runarberg 13y agoActually it does sharpen my calc skills. Now I can do more experiments, better visualizations, I can try something out and see if I'm wrong. All that helps on accumulating insight. Plus, if knowing your tools makes a good carpenter, why is it different with mathematicians.