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My job seems to involve just enough calculus that I can’t afford to forget it, but little enough that I always feel rusty when I need to do it. In those cases, I’m thankful to be able to check my work and make it reproducible with Sympy, a symbolic mathematics library in Python. Here are two examples of recent places I’ve used Sympy to do calculus. We’ll start by computing the expected value of a distribution by doing a symbolic definite integral. Then, we’ll find the maximum of a model by findi...