One-Woman Math Squad

Next up, distributions

But not in the probability sense!  I’m apparently learning to take derivatives of functions that I’ve always been told weren’t differentiable.  Because apparently now differentiability is not the point.  It’s all about integration, baby.

I’ve been told before that integration is a mathematically deeper, more fundamental concept than differentiation, even though they were invented in the opposite order. 

I find this part of the course a lot more exciting that the jam on a plane, so far.  Maybe I am really a pure mathematician.

Maybe I just like the things I understand.

But seriously, a step function has a derivative? This is sillyness and nonsense!  I am very excited.