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Calculus Review General Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:33 No.4457 [Reply]

This is a thread to review/learn calculus.

We will all be reading through James Stewart's "Calculus" 4e edition.

see: http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=67AF6FA4D6DAB692F81A09B6A2EBCC7B

This is inspired by my need to review undergraduate mathematics due to work/school purposes. I'm a bit rusty and I've forgotten a ton of math.

We will start by doing problems from his algebra review pdf which is prep for the calc problems.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:36 No.4486

Based. I'm a maths grad and am free to help if you reach any impasses.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:37 No.4497

>stewart's calculus
>not keisler's infinitesimal approach
take the hyperreal pill

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:39 No.4532

>>4461
3. 2x(x-5) = 2x^2 -10x
4. (4-3x)x = 4x - 3x^2

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:46 No.4613

>>4480
How is this possible, did you just rote memorize the algebra rules you needed in Calc?
You need a decent grasp on Algebra to pass Calc.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:46 No.4617

>>4613
Took Algebra 1 for 4th time in college and moved up literally all the way from there until Calc 2

it was really hard because I basically gave so little of a fuck past the 6th grade I still struggle with some basic calculations even after 2 years of non stop mathematics

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this chart Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:51 No.3354 [Reply]

How accurate is it?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:46 No.4612

I wikipedia this you wikipedia that
based /his/ chart nonetheless

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:46 No.4614

>nazis and soviets get high wackiness quotient
>"our guys" and everyone else don't
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:46 No.4616

>>4614
The Canadian got 90%

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:21 No.1382 [Reply]

What if I wanted to read more or less "contemporary" philosophers like Sartre, Beauvoir, Adorno, Deleuze, Zizek, Badiou, etc.. but don't have the time and, dare I say, sufficient interest to go through Kant, Plato, Aristotle, and all the other classical authors of philosophy? How much do I have to lose? I'm willing to spend a couple of months reading Plato, but I think I'm only willing to go through secondary sources for Aristotle. Same goes for the philosophers that predated the "contemporary" ones mentioned above. I'd be willing to read a history and primer on German idealism and maybe even read primary enlightenment texts if I have to.

So how much do I have to lose? People who are good at philosophy please answer.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:29 No.1442

>>1387
t. theorylet
without philosophy there is no Marx

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:43 No.4574

>>1387
>political economy
So shitty philosophy?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:43 No.4575

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This might be better in a separate thread but whatever.

Would it be a bad idea to learn French by reading the untranslated works of Deleuze and Guattari? Perhaps I should stick to the existentialists.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:43 No.4578

Thanks for the material in this thread guys, really good stuff.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:44 No.4582

>>4575
I think it's good to practice any skill just on the threshold of difficulty, so my guess is that if you're in the process of learning French D&G might be not ideal. (They are, after all, often regarded as infamously unclear.) That's why my own French reading at this moment is just newspapers and popular histories. But if it works for you go for it.

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Can you help me debunk this wehraboo historian Anonymous 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:19:04 No.220 [Reply]

This guy Is called nigel askey, and is apparently a legitimate historian. He published a paper debunking TIK's claim that the K/D ratio of the soviets during WW was 1/1.6, instead claiming that the soviets lost over 4 more times as many combatants as the Germansduring WW2. Here is his paper. I'm not a qualified historian and I dont have access to acrhives or time to research, so I can't debunk him.

http://www.operationbarbarossa.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Essay-alt-view-TIK-presentation.pdf

I checked out his website and alsthough he does seem to be knowledgeable, he makes certain ridiculous claims that the "Vicors write history" in WW2, and the allies covered up how technologically and tactically inferior they were to the germans.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:22:22 No.2008

>>1841
I've read that 1.3:1 irreplaceable casualty ratio is also what US and British forces had fighting against Germany.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:14 No.3045

>>2008
Where did you see that?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:52 No.3362

Post some more Wehraboo arguments and get to debunking them!

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:38 No.4519

>https://s1.desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/trash/image/1606/50/1606504832714.jpg
&ltLe epic "Muh poor Warsaw unhelped by evul Stalin"
What is with /pol/ and putting their ideology into everything including porn?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:44 No.4595

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrKDBFJoo2w&ab_channel=USNationalArchives

Some archive documentaries

Also can anyone help me find an old documentary about Nazi atrocities? I remember it distinctly because among the footage used were filmed portions of Belarus villages and a literal piles of baby corpses torched alive by the nazi scum.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:32 No.4449 [Reply]

Penguin Random House Parent Company buys Simon & Schuster

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:40 No.4538

I'm jelly of first worlders, they can get books for so cheap. Everything here is expensive, even used books in tatters.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:41 No.4552

Does that mean the Penguin classics catalog will get bigger?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:42 No.4564

>>4449
They should burn all the Chodehouse books if they are going. Chodehouse is baby crap. I don't read it and I don't need it shoved down my fucking throat cause manbaby will pee pee his pants if you don't read it.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:43 No.4579

>>4527
>shopindie
unfortunate word choice

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:43 No.4580

I truly can't stand hearing about Chodehouse. Try talking about something I actually care about. Even just one page. Everyone here backs me up too. They don't want to hear some fat geek recite his favorite Chodehouse gags. Try to read and discuss somethin I fucking care about. Chodehouse peeves me off to no end.

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Time Travel Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:23 No.1395 [Reply]

What can you guys tell me about "Time Travel"?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:27 No.1432

In a way, going to the future is possible if you move at relativistic speeds.
Going to the past would require moving at above the speed of light.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:35 No.1510

>>1405
>>1415
Why?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:21:36 No.1520

>>1395
worst movie plot

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:42 No.4568

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>>1423
Here's not much better.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:43 No.4577

>>1396
This is the plot of Steins;Gate.

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Going for physical books Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:14 No.4202 [Reply]

I can't concentrate when reading on a computer screen, is it a bad idea or nah? Ideally I'm only going to buy cheap used stuff I find.

Another question, should I try to get the absolute best translation and publisher or is does it not matter what edition I get as long as I freaking read something?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:17 No.4243

>>4239
Hardcover is better because the book is far less likely to get torn or the cover itself wear out. Paperback books are known to be cheap because they're shoddy 90% of the time.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:17 No.4244

>>4239
>>4241
Adding to this I'd also get a hardcover if it's a reference work that you're going to be opening often.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:17 No.4245

>>4203
Ok, but Realtalk.
I was planning on ordering some Cockshott to read it in physical, but this whole "will be put on a List" is worriesome

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:17 No.4246

>>4245
tbh cockshott is very low risk. It's basically all computer science, maths, planned economy shit, as opposed to 'let's kill and maim every land owner' and so on

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:40 No.4540

me too anon. used bookstores/op shops are great, and if your area has based unions they occasionally have some prole literature.

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Community Organizing 101 Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:24:14 No.3049 [Reply]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apGViv909eo
>Let's talk about a hard truth about voting and community networks….

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:02 No.3480

>>3367
https://leftypedia.org/wiki/Organizing

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:02 No.3481

>>3367
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwZyBuf1h5I
>These three rules will help you OVERTHROW CAPITALISM! [Dialectical Materialism Part 3]

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:25:03 No.3483

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4dnmtlVXak
>3 Ways To Hold A Communist Meeting

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:23 No.4324

Book drop @ >>4317

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:39 No.4524

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Academic Bussywork Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:26 No.4371 [Reply]

I feel like the busywork is college is draining my desire to live. How do people make it through four years of this?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:28 No.4387

>>4371
You don't.

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:38 No.4512

>>4371
Just deal with it, you don't want to be struggling to survive if you have the chance to get an education to get a better job and therefore more money for praxis. Think of it as your mini long march of your individual life to become less of a wage slave, assuming your degree gives higher salaries. Many proles work jobs, raise kids, and also do college, so you can too comrade. I hope you are finished on time good luck

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:38 No.4515

that’s what I thought at first, and now I did so poorly that I’m doing it in 5 years

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:38 No.4516

Had the same thing but I managed to scrape through with the grade I wanted in the end.
>>4512
I like this though
>Think of it as your mini long march of your individual life to become less of a wage slave
But it'll depend on what motivates you. What motivates you comrade?

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Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:26:38 No.4517

Same as >>4515 and I also owe my university a lot of money, so chop-chop if you don't want to end up like me.

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