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Re:Great Scientist ≠ Good at Math by kiba on Sunday April 07, 2013 @01:10AM (#5506175)
there is math, and then there is math. In Russia they have a saying "beat a rabbit long enough and it will eventually learn to take derivatives, but integrals are another matter".

A rabbit will be woefully unprepared to learn integrals if it forgot derivatives before it starts learning integral.

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Re:Great Scientist ≠ Good at Math by jleader on Sunday April 07, 2013 @02:28AM (#5506304)
One moderately popular college calculus textbook (by Prof. Apostol of Caltech) introduces integrals before derivatives.
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