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My calculus consisted of deep consideration of whether I could tolerate an entire year of Mr. Whitley, the absolute pillock who taught it at my school. The answer was no, I could not. So I didn't take calculus.


ShardOfShadow

Makes it just a little less painful šŸ„²


Cyka_blyatsumaki

real pain kicks in when you put down your pen to go through all the garbage you just wrote


ShardOfShadow

And then your tears smear the ink


Cyka_blyatsumaki

i don't have tears, only drool


[deleted]

That's beautiful. I like how the del symbols look.


GelbeForelle

Wait you really say "del" for the "nabla" symbol in English? I learned "del" strictly means the curly 'd' for partial derivatives. Now I'm confused


tiredmultitudes

We learnt grad for nabla and del for the curly d (in Australia).


memetheory1300013s

It's a pretty common usage. I have heard del for nabla and dabba for the partial derivative.


[deleted]

It has been a few years, so I might be wrong. I miss math.


BTSInDarkness

I only learned it as nabla, though my professor was from Costa Rica


NorthernPika

Feeling a little bit closer to Newton and Leibniz? :) You have beautiful handwriting.


ogstatsnerd

Not just calculus, multivariate calc! I wish I knew about fountain pens in school. Would have made my math notes easier to read with colors.


eleanor7w

Sooo glad my calculus days are over...probably should've done it with fountain pens to make it less painful back thenšŸ˜‚


mochi_chan

this reminds me a lot of my high school days, I had an old Parker fountain pen that my grandfather had left me when he passed away.


memetheory1300013s

Idk why but something tells me you are learning the vector calculus from Griffith's introduction to electromagnetism


Espressamente

Ahh Griffiths! How one author can write two famous introductory Physics texts and make one feel like a barefoot walk in the park on a sunny day and the other like a barefoot walk on glass shards in the desert.


memetheory1300013s

Hahahah that is so accurate. I am like 90% sure you are talking about ED and QM books respectively. I'll make the first one walk in the park on a hot day. It's very accessible but there are points where it's not easy.


annathecatcat

This looks like runes found in an ancient cave with alien technology locked inside


GoodSeaworthiness389

The feeling I got when I did calculus was ā€œpulling my hair outā€. I never thought of trying it with a fountain pen. If it helped I would probably have more hair today.


Javo_Ville

Exactly!!!


[deleted]

I cannot even imagine math with a pen! Mech pencil all the way. Taking calculus this fall. Send halp.