Mathematician states“Newton and Leibniz developed the calculus…. Their ideas were attacked for being full of paradoxes.” Newton’s formulation of calculus was self-contradictory yet it worked. Newton worked with small increments going of to a zero limit. Berkeley showed that this leads to logical inconsistency. the main problem was “that a quantity was very close to zero, but not zero, during the first part of the operation then it became zero at the end. That is one of the reasons this author says mathematics is meaningless
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