Lies, Made Up By The Council Of Mathematicians Who Want To Brainwash Us

Lies, Made Up By The Council Of Mathematicians Who Want To Brainwash Us
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Ever notice how calculus textbooks present Taylor series like it's some elegant mathematical truth? Meanwhile, every student who's ever tried to actually use it knows the horror. You start with a nice, compact function and end up with an infinite sum that's supposed to be "equivalent" but requires calculating derivatives until your calculator begs for mercy. And convergence? That's just a theoretical concept to make you feel better while you're approximating with three terms and praying the error isn't catastrophic. The secret Big Calculus doesn't want you to know: most mathematicians just use computers for this stuff and laugh at the rest of us scribbling factorial denominators.

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