Sujet : Re: Quantum mystics
De : jeroen (at) *nospam* nospam.please (Jeroen Belleman)
Groupes : sci.electronics.designDate : 10. Jun 2024, 22:52:01
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On 6/10/24 20:52, john larkin wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:55:47 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
On 6/10/24 10:14, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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... I was ok with mathematics in school until we started
on calculus. I could not, and still cannot, understand concepts such as
"vanishingly small".
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Calculus is to arithmetic what astrology is to astronomy.
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Now now, that's unjustified. Calculus is eminently useful
and perfectly rigorous.
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Mathematics is a tool chest. Unfortunately, the way it's
taught, few people end up being able to use the tools.
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Jeroen Belleman
How often do you use real, symbolic calculus?
Not all that often. For most functions I encounter, I
already know the solution.
Solving differential equations?
From time to time, using Laplace for the continuous domain,
and Z-transforms for discrete-time things.
Jeroen Belleman
Quantum mystics
Re: Quantum mystics
