I will look into the history of limits.
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De 18 - Final Reflection
I really enjoyed the course. I've learned a lot of history of math that was beyond the central European theme. Studying mathematics, I w...
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The first thing that made me stop was the poem on p.271. It made me wonder how them writing about arithmetic, since that was considered high...
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Excellent! This will be a great topic to explore, Marius. I encourage you to look at sources as varied as Zeno's Paradox from ancient Greece, and the early Japanese understanding of finding the area under a curve by taking narrower and narrower 'slices'...
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