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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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2007-01-29 01:51:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Other - Science

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As understanding of mathematics grows it is common to find that certain notions have changed.

When a lot of these theories were developed the technology did not exist to test them to the extent that we can now. As such very small numbers and very large numbers for example may cause theories to fail.

For example we used to think that 1 was a prime number but nowadays this is not the case.

So yes - i quite agree with you.

2007-01-29 02:00:17 · answer #1 · answered by rodandalisonthompson 4 · 0 0

a million. The mathematical factor is a non dimentional no longer something and as such it dont exist. the factor of using a factor (*smile*) in arithmetic is that it represents something that does exist. case in point, evaluate the "factor" the place 2 strains intersect. this is genuine and can desire to be the answer to an equation such by using fact the "factor" on your return and forth whilst your motor vehicle runs out of gasoline. which may well be a very genuine evaluate your return and forth. 2. Calculus sums those type of things-that dont exist -alongside aline to grant something -its leangth yet it is absurd and self-contradictory so calculus is and absurd meaningless technique. somewhat, i think of you're speaking 0 length integrals, yet that isn't what calculus is speaking approximately. as a effect calculus is speaking approximately what occurs once you're making calculations using many line segments that are shrinking in length in the direction of 0. It does not say that they attain 0 length yet treats them as thought they are noticeably much there. drawing close a shrink of 0 isn't the comparable as 0.

2016-12-16 16:11:52 · answer #2 · answered by kemmer 4 · 0 0

It got man to the moon, so if it works, use it. It has recently been discovered that the ancient Greeks had a form of calculus (although not by that name) 2000 years ago, but it was lost somewhere in the dark ages.

2007-01-29 02:20:33 · answer #3 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 1 0

Well, it solves real world problems in science and engineering and it has a whole set of formal proofs in math to say that it's a valid and consistent system. That's good enough for me. It sounds like the rantings of another loony who says math and science are not logical and probably doesn't understand it..

2007-01-29 02:37:06 · answer #4 · answered by Gene 7 · 1 0

And yet:
The Voyager spacecrafts made it to the outer planets using Newtonian physics based on calculus. Microchip designs developed using calculus run the computer you used to ask your question. etc.

2007-01-29 02:01:49 · answer #5 · answered by Faeldaz M 4 · 0 1

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