No
Lots of filthy fucking normies can do it
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Jayden Brooks
Mason Foster
>Is calculus difficult?
It really isn't. You will want a decent foundation on precalc and at least know about trig identities.
>it seems like it's just 2 concepts, derivatives and integrals
Those are a few of the core concepts. There are other concepts in there like limits, series, convergence.
It's all pretty fun stuff though. At least I find it interesting.
Eli Sanchez
>Calculus is usually the breaking point as to whether or not you'll be able to make it in higher levels of math.
Bullshit. When you get through your calculus courses, you still won't have done any real math. I think the true test is real analysis.
Sebastian Perry
fuck off, faggot.
Most of the shit taught in precalc is overkill.
Seems right. Calc, DEs, and linear algebra were okay. I have a book on real analysis. Couldn't even get past the concept neighborhoods.
Jaxson Jones
of course it's fucking easy when you get told to differentiate [math]x^2[/math] or integrate [math]cos(x)[/math]
using trigonometric substitution or integration by parts to solve shit like [math]\int \frac{dx}{x\sqrt{x^2 +9x}}[/math]
Caleb Cooper
>trigonometric substitution
>integration by parts
>hard
The fuck is so hard about that, brainlet? Tedious =/= difficult.
Julian Ortiz
it's not hard, but being able to do simple differentiation or integration problems doesn't mean you can do all of them
Grayson King
>trig sub
>hard
psst... [math]\sqrt{x^2 + 9x}[/math] hints that this is the hypotenuse of a right-triangle
Adam Martin
Your highschool math teachers probably have (at most) a BA in mathematics teaching. They rarely know what they're talking about.
Calculus is very easy once you get the hand of it. Like any other analytical or procedural thought, you'll only get the hang of it through repeated exposure. In other words, learn the basic theorems, then solve a fuckload of problems.
The only people I know who have difficulty with calculus are people who didn't use it often enough when they were supposed to be learning it.
Connor Anderson
pretty much this, my high school teacher didn't really know shit.
Something i'd add is it strangely gets easier from 2 - 3, the more tools you have the less difficult the problems actually are.