#calculus

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. ↗

— John Pople

#cover #discarded #found #i #read

Yet in another way, calculus is fundamentally naive, almost childish in its optimism. Experience teaches us that change can be sudden, discontinuous, and wrenching. Calculus draws its power by refusing to see that. It insists on a world without accidents, where one thing leads logically to another. Give me the initial conditions and the law of motion, and with calculus I can predict the future -- or better yet, reconstruct the past. I wish I could do that now. ↗

— Steven H. Strogatz

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