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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: Quantum mystics
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:55:47 +0200
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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