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To: grundle
[Calculus is] "a bankrupt concept of math, dating from the 19th century"... so says the "professor of integrative biology and physiology". Call it a hunch, but I'd wager that higher math kicked this guys arse in school. I know it kicked mine.

In fact, Calc is a lot older than that. And I'm sure there's many a electrical, mechanical, aerospace and many other engineers who would dispute such a silly claim of it being "bankrupt", whatever that is even supposed to mean. Someone has to make the engines run and the rockets keep from exploding on the pad. Obviously, it's isn't this biology professor.

16 posted on 03/13/2023 1:52:01 PM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Joe Brower
'"a bankrupt concept of math, dating from the 19th century"... so says the "professor of integrative biology and physiology

I'm not sure what this guy's specialty is, but history ain't it. Calculus was invented by English mathematician Isaac Newton in the 1660s, which is the 17th century.

24 posted on 03/13/2023 2:00:21 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Joe Brower

Newton invented it to explain his physics.


48 posted on 03/13/2023 2:24:05 PM PDT by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna!)
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