/sci/ - Science & Math

Well you have to know that some societies advance faster and that those advancements give them the ability to become more educated and then they are smarter. Its a common, racism, mis-conception that smarter people build better societies and abstract frameworks.

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By singling out people clearly on one side of the political spectrum you out yourself as having the same pathology. Yours just involves more manipulation and gas-lighting.

My calc 1 prof skipped the rigorous definition of limit section. I've read the epsilon delta chapter a few times but don't feel as if its intuitive the same way the rest of the course is. It still feels like magic, or a cheat, though I don't believe it is.

Let's take a break from OP responding to himself to read the excerpt in question.

><h3>The curriculum
Ahmed Baba studied Arabic grammar and syntax, astronomy, logic, rhetoric and prosody. Textbooks were purchased and copied on a number of subjects, including astronomy, astrology, botany, dogma, geography, Islamic law, literary analysis, mathematics (including calculus and geometry), medicine, mysticism, morphology, music, rhetoric, philosophy, the occult sciences, and geomancy.

No mention of GR, all we have for math is geometry and calculus, no algebra though. As far as calculus is concerned that pretty much leaves doing rough Riemann Sums presumably with square shapes to estimate round shapes. You can't have calculus without limits (calculus itself means small rock, a reference to [math]dx[/math]), and you can't have limits without algebra; plenty of mathematicians have invoked ideas of calculus to varying degrees, but they will not receive credit for the subject.