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>> 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...
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> 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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