>> In what sense is calculus "tough"?
>
> are you talking about that calculus? the one with integrals, derivations
> etc? Yeah, pretty hard stuff. I gave up on integrals in the complex
> space...
>
> If you don't believe so, you're clearly gifted...

To me, the concepts seem pretty simple. Sure, actually applying the 
concepts in a tricky situation is... tricky. But that applies to just 
about anything.

Having just said that, as best as I can tell, taking the derivative 
/usually/ makes something simpler, and taking the integral therefore 
/usually/ makes something more complicated. It's easy enough in the 
simple case, but - according to Mathematica - for almost every function 
I'm interested in, no closed form exists for its integral. In other 
words, analytic integration is impossible most of the time. (And I guess 
if I didn't have Mathematica, I'd spend a reeeeeely long time trying to 
figure out how to do the integration...)

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