Why do all calculus professors have such an enormous hard-on

>>8511379
It's got a pretty derivative.

According to my calc 2 professor, it's because all of the other calc professors have an enormous hardon for it. In his words, "you're going to be seeing it a lot, so it's best to get comfortable with it now".

Because its really useful and yoy use it a lot , like this guy says >>8511395

>>8511379
I think the real question here is why do all calculus professors have enormous hard-ons? What's their secret?

It's used a lot in quantum.

It represents heat transfer and stuff like that.

>>8511384
I don't even take calculus and I get this joke. well done

>Calculus
Isn't that, like, a high-school subject?

>>8511379
Because its a trig function that is produced by integrating a rational function. When integrating rational functions, logarithms and arctan show up a lot.

>>8511379
Because it provides a convenient way to integrate rational functions without having to confuse the students with the complex logarithm.