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Iain Carruthers's avatar

Love this. Our maths teacher used to say say 'calculus is weight training for the mind, my friends, weight training for the mind.'

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Joseph Hex's avatar

I now know what to tell my children every time they ask what the point of higher math is. Thank you.

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Ethan Anderson's avatar

That’s really good!

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Catarina's avatar

100% agree! Somehow I always thought the same in the back of my mind, and you just put it very clearly in words. I ended up doing a Masters in an unrelated field just to prove to myself that I could do it, and indeed, I haven't really used the technical learnings, but knowing that I did it in one go makes me feel very proud.

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