I'm pretty sure we did proofs in high school. But that was a while ago, don't know what they do now.
Hey now that I think of it, "mathematical analysis" had continuity, limits, some integrals. And then every mathematically inclined uni specialization had "integral and differential calculations (let's shorten it to calculus)" which was more advanced use of integrals :)
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but it may be called a thorn in a different locale.
> In the US, you can probably pass calculus without writing a proof, but you can't pass mathematical analysis without at least understanding epsilon/delta proofs.
In Poland we do those in high school. :)
Re:Proof You Can Do Hard Things
by __MatrixMan__ on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @09:26AM
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In the US, our education system kind of sucks (:
"Calculus" is the application of that theory without argument. It's an advanced high school class or an early college one. There you'll integrate or differentiate real valued functions for use in optimisation problems or for determining qualitative features of such a function (e.g. where is it flat, where is it defined, etc).
In the US, you can probably pass calculus without writing a proof, but you can't pass mathematical analysis without at least understanding epsilon/delta proofs.