(Inspired by Reddit post of the last month)

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      1 year ago

      No judgement, but you should know it’s not that simple. You can’t just pull out your calculator and add together an uncountably infinite collection of values one-by-one.

      I mean, you could add together a finite subset of the values, which turns out to be the only practical way fairly often because a symbolic solution is too hard to find. You don’t get the actual answer that way, though, just an approximation.

      The actual symbolic approaches to integrals are very algebra-heavy and they often require more than one whiteboard to solve by hand. Blackpenredpen “math for fun” on YouTube if you want to see it done at peak performance.