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Re:The Mathematical Hacker by ThrowawayR2 on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:12PM (#34122618)
> "Yet we regularly teach smart high school students and first-year undergraduates calculus..."

High school students are taught plug-and-chug calculus where one uses rules and formulae without any real understanding of the underlying subtleties that make calculus work.

Re:The Mathematical Hacker by kthielen on Saturday December 24, 2022 @09:01PM (#34123326)
Bulletproof counter argument, you sure showed me.