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Slightly tangential fact I heard recently on a podcast [0]: historically the problem of integration preceded that of differentiation. But because differentiation is so much easier, we teach that to kids first. It's one of the many ways that schools obscure the intuition of calculus and turn it into so many formulae to be memorised.

[0] https://newbooksnetwork.com/david-bressoud-calculus-reordere...




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