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anthk
25 days ago
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How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
Archimedes did Calculus before Newton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Method_of_Mechanical_Theor...
Jensson
24 days ago
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He didn't connect the dots, so no he didn't do calculus even if he did some things related to it.
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