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tokenadult on July 22, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Calculus Trap

Are you talking about the school algebra that for most students precedes differential and integral calculus, or are you talking about the abstract algebra that in most curricula follows calculus as an upper-division undergraduate course?

eru on July 23, 2009 [–]

Yes. The latter. However we had Analysis (Calculus) and Lineare Algebra at the same time. Algebra came afterwards.

Calculus in school was as boring as everything else. School math is mostly a basic version of engineer's math.

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