I don't want to sound like a bigot

[james_davis_nicoll]

I'm really annoyed at how completely I've forgotten calculus.

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[felila.livejournal.com]

It was only seven years ago that I revisited math, made it through two calculus courses, elementary statistics, and some discrete math, and it's all gone. I believe, as someone upthread said, that the statistics and combinatorics would be the most useful, if I still remembered anything of them.

And I never got to the point where Euler's Identity was just OBVIOUS, which was my goal.

[bwross.livejournal.com]

If you want that, you should go down the Pure Math route to Complex Analysis, which is Euler's Identity's natural home.

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

It's not obvious, nor should it be. My notes on that day were "-1 doesn't have a square root or a natural logarithm, and the ratio of those two non-existent quantities is the same as the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle." Buh?