Last night I started reading Calculus and Pizza, going through the first four or five chapters (along with the exercises). I love calculus! Derivatives have come back from the misty hollow of my memory with lightning speed, and the other bits (the chain rule, etc.) are hot on their heels. It’s tremendously fun. As for algebra, I’d completely forgotten about the binomial theorem (namely, (a+b)2 = a2 + 2ab + b2), and a lot of the exponential rules were a bit rusty (square root of x is the same as x1/2). It’s nice to remember what I once knew. And before long I’ll have enough of it under my belt that I’ll be able to go on and learn all the cool stuff I never got to. Mmm. :)
And all this means I finally get to use my trusty old TI-86 again…
[tags]calculus[/tags]
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What you mean is that you wish you were an engineer. ;)
Don’t we all.
Indeed. :) Wait, I am an engineer, I s’pose. Software engineer. Soon it’ll be just on the side, but that’s fine. Librarian by day, engineer by night. Or by afternoon. Whatever. I think my brain is fried today. :)
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