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		krsrhe on Oct 29, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (1910) It’s extremely niche (abstract, “Platonic”) to ever need to care about derivatives of non piecewise-analytic functions.

btilly on Oct 30, 2023 [–]

I think of wavelets and stochastic processes to be a significantly bigger niche than you probably do.

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