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In my experience they (try to) teach those somewhat. Not in a calculus-type rigor, or even very mathematically, but conceptually yes.

The problem is that those things are not "immediately" needed, so students don't learn them or immediately forget them if they do. What students "immediately need" is to run some test in some application and check if some value passes some magical threshold.

These students then become researchers and these researchers become professors.



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