#calculus

The difference between derivatives and integrals is like the difference between solving a sudoku and solving a riddle from a fairy guarding a treasure who is bound by fairy law to make it technically solvable, but if you do manage to solve their riddle their boss will actually kill them, and even if you get the right answer they won't let you through unless you remember to add + C at the end

my calc professor just called inflection points nonbinary critical points and I'm like ah yes the 3 genders, local maximum local minimum and inflection point

did you know they say calculus is the language of God. did you know they tried to hold math up to infinity like a candle to the void. did you know statisticians plunged into the vastness of random chance and picked out patterns and equations and eight hundred ways to tell you how big your inevitable errors are and how far off those guesses at errors might be. math haters I can't sit with you anymore. human innovation is cradled in these ancient, methodical, desperate attempts at understanding what we are not designed to understand