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Calculus Was Developed in Medieval India
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| Wednesday, January 9, 2008
| Stephen Ornes
Posted on 01/21/2008 11:06:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/21/2008 11:06:28 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
don’t tell me; half-cocked jack brought it back from hindoostan.
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01/21/2008 11:08:15 AM PST
by
Pietro
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01/21/2008 11:09:07 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave; ...
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01/21/2008 11:09:24 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Don’t be ridiculous. I invented calculus just after I invented the internet.
Signed:
Albert Gore
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01/21/2008 11:12:30 AM PST
by
Phlap
(REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
To: SunkenCiv
The infinite series goes way way back to Achilles and his turtle.
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01/21/2008 11:14:32 AM PST
by
RightWhale
("... which is not a linnnit' 'I'ht first published svstenn of predicate logic was devised 1ยป' the ()
To: SunkenCiv
Newton invented calculus during a two year trip home from the university (during an outbreak of plague) and he never trumpeted his discovery or made much of it at all, except as a tool that he used to develop his physics.
If he really did get a big boost from ideas from India that would explain both the incredible speed with which he accomplished his feat and his great humility on this subject.
As he said himself, “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
Maybe, in keeping with the particular Political Correctness of his age, he didn’t feel up to the task of giving credit to brown-skinned, non-Christian giants.
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posted on
01/21/2008 11:23:25 AM PST
by
samtheman
To: RightWhale
Heel never get credit for it.
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01/21/2008 11:25:09 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
The origins of math is geometry. Geometry was developed by stone-masons building the first city.
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posted on
01/21/2008 11:33:27 AM PST
by
edcoil
To: SunkenCiv
and this trivia will help me pick up chicks?
To: max americana
If you search for them in the Math Department, yes. Might even work in the music department ... if my aging memory serves.
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posted on
01/21/2008 12:22:51 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: max americana
As long as they’re not dental hygienists.
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01/21/2008 12:26:12 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
The problem with this, is that infinite series were in rudiment already known by Archimedes (his method of exhaustion), and that neither Newton nor Leibniz relied on limiting arguments in the development of calculus. Calculus was developed on the basis of infinitesimals or fluxions, which (with all the properties needed) are incompatible with classical logic (cf. a tract by Bp. Berekely (C of E) attacking Edmund Halley).
Limiting arguments, which tie the infinitesimal calculus to infinite series were developed about 150 years later by Cauchy.
Find any use of inifinitesimals before Newton and Leibniz and you have a case.
The nearest thing one has (but only seen through the lens of Descarte’s coordinate geometry) is the assertion of the sophist Heraclites, in contradiction of one of Euclid’s postulates, that the intersection between a circle and a tangent line is larger than a point. (From the point of view of infinitesimal calculus, while it contains only one point, it also contains all (first order) infinitesimal deformations of the point in the tangent direction.)
(My doctoral dissertation had to do with models in the context of intuitionistic logic of the sort of infinitesimals Newton and Leibniz actually used. When I teach calculus, I tell the students they have a choice; they can learn limits or substitute a graduate course in mathematical logic, thereby putting the original way of doing calculus on a sound footing.)
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01/21/2008 1:18:55 PM PST
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: Hyzenthlay
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posted on
01/21/2008 1:48:46 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: edcoil
The origin of ‘math’ is arithmetic, which was developed along with trade.
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posted on
01/21/2008 4:46:09 PM PST
by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: SunkenCiv
Great picture [at least for Trekkieism], and the maker has made them free.
Also great,
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01/21/2008 4:55:20 PM PST
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Jedi Master Pikachu
( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Ur, Enoc, the first cities built by the grandsons of Adam used geometry
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01/21/2008 4:57:45 PM PST
by
edcoil
To: SunkenCiv
Everyone knows Calculus was invented in Zimbabwe.
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posted on
01/21/2008 4:58:03 PM PST
by
Always Right
(Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
To: max americana
Sure, but only series chicks.
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posted on
01/21/2008 6:23:30 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(Democrats are phony Americans)
To: SunkenCiv
In a more series vein, show us the original works. Otherwise, it can be little more than hearsay.
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01/21/2008 6:31:23 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(Democrats are phony Americans)
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