<p>Wow… I really don’t see your point in this comment. Yes, math is technically a man-made invention, but the concept is natural. Many natural occurrences can certainly be put into mathematical (or physics) terms. Calculus is extremely elegant and works out perfectly, only showing the greater wonder of the world we live in. Also, look around you… I imagine math was put into creating much of the objects or what not that you see. Math and science are the ways of the future… deal with it.</p>
<p>I don’t like knowing that the world we live in has so much order and logic to it. I feel that some things just aren’t supposed to/shouldn’t be known.</p>
<p>^Hmm that doesn’t make much sense. So you’d rather live in a world of randomness and unpredictability? Doesn’t that even discomfort you that you don’t know what is to come and you can’t explain why something occurs. I think I’m fail to understand how order and logic could possibly be bad thing instead of good.</p>
<p>“Calculus is proof that math is a man made invention, which makes it even dumber than it is since it claims to be natural and “beautiful.””</p>
<p>That’s like saying everything that has ever been seen, heard of, or thought of is unnatural because we came up with words for them and language is man made.</p>
<p>Are you guys seriously arguing about the beutifullness of math? seriously?</p>
<p>heres my 2 cents:</p>
<p>calculus can go suck my ***<em>. Cause my teacher failed me…and for as long as i live, I will always think back to that fateful day 3 days ago when my teacher announced my grade…“A…minus.” *Sob</em></p>
<p>Calculus is a natural extension of infinity to the calculations of slopes and areas. If anything, it’s getting closer to nature, since you can’t calculate the area of a leaf using a formula for a rectangle. And in any case, infinity was made rigorous by Cantor.</p>
<p>Almost all discovered true statements in math (Godel-statements being the main exception…) can be proven under the framework of Zermelo-Frankel set theory + Axiom of Choice. The only article of faith is the acceptance of ZF set theory and the mechanisms of proof, both of which are so obvious to most people as to be taken for granted.</p>
<p>I love calculus. Despite being really tough, once I understand a concept, I like doing all the problems. At that point they’re just puzzles, and relaxing to do.</p>
<p>According to CNN–or was it Fox?–we were saved from that bombing because “the chemicals malfunctioned.” I heard this on Christmas, and it definitely made my day. Just in case you didn’t know, apparently the laws of the universe can simply not apply for a few minutes…like the phenomena of rules of logic not applying in Washington.</p>
<p>I’m taking community college calculus and am finding it rather difficult. I usually pull through on the tests, but the homework often leaves me lost. We’re taking a semester’s worth over the whole year, so it’s slightly more relaxed, but I think the biggest problem is our teacher hasn’t thought about calculus since she took it in college (used to be a basic algebra teacher). She’s kind of learning it as we are, and I really don’t like that situation.</p>
<p>I have two friends that actually enrolled part-time in a local private university taking the semester of calc in one semester and they both are doing extremely well, and both were previously below my level of math skills. I think the teacher makes a huge difference in how easy calc, or any class, is.</p>
<p>Ugh. not calculus, I’m really lucky to just discover recently a tutor at our school, who is from UC Berkeley - he helped me A LOT compared to my Cal teacher, who barely teaches… And also, I found out the only way to understand these concepts is to read every single word and try to decipher them from there… (like Integrals)</p>
And also, I found out the only way to understand these concepts is to read every single word and try to decipher them from there… (like Integrals)</p>