Re: Quantum mystics

On 6/10/24 10:14, 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.

Now now, that's unjustified. Calculus is eminently useful
and perfectly rigorous.
Mathematics is a tool chest. Unfortunately, the way it's
taught, few people end up being able to use the tools.
Jeroen Belleman