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[–] jukibom@lemmy.world 144 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I would've absolutely paid more attention in maths if the learning material was this utterly contemptuous of "ordinary mathematicians" haha

also full Project Gutenberg text is here https://calculusmadeeasy.org/, thanks for sharing!

[–] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm a chemical engineer and I now better understand calculus slightly better from this post. I did a whole lot of "okkayyy ...let's just stick to the process and wait for this whole thing to blow over"

I know what they were asking me to do but I never really fully understood everything.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I also studied chemical engineering, and throughout high school and university that was exactly it. Calculus was a kind of magic, and you just had to learn all the spells.

With this book I finally understood why the derivative of x^2 is 2x.

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok I'm no mathematician but I'll still can't see why d(x^2) = 2x.

[–] gramie@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

This exact explanation is in the book: https://calculusmadeeasy.org/4.html

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