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Comment author: MathiasZaman 15 September 2014 10:04:41PM 2 points [-]

I've been working on relearning calculus, after noticing that I had forgotten most of what I learned in high school. I'm doing this with a text-book someone send me a pdf of (in a bunch of other books for learning about AI). The theory is going pretty well, but I find that I have some trouble actually getting the problems solved. I've been told this would get better with practice.

Comment author: D_Malik 16 September 2014 09:23:20PM 4 points [-]

My impression is that the conceptual parts of calculus are valuable, but the "here is how to integrate by hand" parts are useless.

Comment author: AlexSchell 16 September 2014 03:36:15AM 2 points [-]

I just recently started to learn basic multivariable calculus (using this book + Khan academy etc.) to make progress on my economics self-study (using this magnificent book). This turned out to involve some of relearning of single-variable also, because much of what I learned in college and high school didn't quite stick. What's the book you're using? Are you aware of the best textbooks thread? Why do you want to study calculus?