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RE: Can you solve this integral from MIT's Integration Bee?

in #mathematics7 years ago

Oh, I think we're in the realm of 1 in 10,000 who won't freak out just looking at that integral! There is a small counter-current holding on to mathematics as a rigorous subject; I mean, philosophy, for example, has almost totally disappeared from schools. Thankfully the maths competitions and Olympiads are away from the dead hand of government/corporate "mastery (obedience) learning". I teach a few gifted kids who haven't had their lights dimmed as yet, so that's fun!