[FredZarguna]

One of the things that has gone down the memory hole is that Marx was also a failed mathematician. He wrote an absolutely hilarious proof that a sequence of continuous functions must converge to a continuous limit function [it does not.]

His proof involves appeals to "forces of nature," which even by the standards of the early nineteenth century were not considered rigorous. So he decided to become a "philosopher" instead. From time-to-time Russian and the occasional Chinese mathematician tried to argue that he was "essentially correct." Eventually they decided it was probably better not to talk about his mathematical career at all.

[Jack Hydrazine]

ROFLMAO!!!

[thecodont]

One of the things that has gone down the memory hole is that Marx was also a failed mathematician. He wrote an absolutely hilarious proof that a sequence of continuous functions must converge to a continuous limit function [it does not.] His proof involves appeals to "forces of nature," which even by the standards of the early nineteenth century were not considered rigorous. So he decided to become a "philosopher" instead. From time-to-time Russian and the occasional Chinese mathematician tried to argue that he was "essentially correct." Eventually they decided it was probably better not to talk about his mathematical career at all.

Thanks, I did not know this!