Re: Quantum mystics

On 10/06/2024 6:14 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

... I was ok with mathematics in school until we started
on calculus. I could not, and still cannot, understand concepts such as
"vanishingly small".

  Calculus is to arithmetic what astrology is to astronomy.

Rubbish. You can't have astrology without astronomy, but the conclusion astrologers draw from astronomical events are total nonsense.
You can't have calculus without arithmetic, but calculus is just a device that lets you get accurate arithmetic results with less computation. Newton used it exactly that way. Leibniz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
did too, but he also spelled exactly how he was doing it which is why we use his notation, rather Newton's.
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