"This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on."
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Marvin Minsky in David G. Stork AL's Legacy: 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality, MIT Press, 06-Feb-1998, p. 15
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