reminiscences, — Fine Doubter
Recently published material I encounter has the advantage of reverting to the ancient approximation goal, but the continued disadvantage of keeping their abstract method impenetrable — Fine Doubter
Some second hand books that I have leafed through, seemingly of the period when I was at school, averred that calculus was all about areas and speeds, though that had never had anything to do with the lessons I had "had". Is this a class thing? — Fine Doubter
reforms of the calculus in the 19th C? In terms of limits, as explained copiously hereabouts by fishfry — bongo fury
3. At age 15 I encountered dy over dx (which the ratty teacher irrationally insisted, doesn't cancel to y over x) and a snake shape. It wasn't admitted that these had any purpose, nor was the "procedure" explained. — Fine Doubter
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