Author Topic: The one unforgivable sin is to be boring  (Read 2111 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Holden

  • { ∅, { ∅ } }
  • Posts: 5070
  • Hentrichian Philosophical Pessimist
The Method
« Reply #30 on: May 18, 2023, 12:50:04 pm »
As we know,Archimedes in his "The Method"  says that surfaces could be considered as made up of an infinity of parallel lines and that the solid revolutions are filled by circles.

In this, I think, he was getting very ,very close to the idea of modern integral calculus.

Of course, I recognise the fact that he says nothing at all about the concept of limit.
But,one is compelled to wonder as to how much things might have changed if he had, or someone, within a century or two of his death, had taken a few more steps in the right direction.

Take care.
« Last Edit: May 18, 2023, 12:53:30 pm by Holden »
La Tristesse Durera Toujours                                  (The Sadness Lasts Forever ...)
-van Gogh.

Nation of One

  • { }
  • { ∅, { ∅ } }
  • Posts: 4756
  • Life teaches me not to want it.
    • What Now?
Re: The one unforgivable sin is to be boring
« Reply #31 on: May 18, 2023, 02:43:14 pm »
It probably would have only made things worse.  I mean, what do States or Nations do with such theoretical knowledge but apply it to more efficient ways of destroying the earth and its peoples?
Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

Gorticide @ Nothing that is so, is so DOT edu

~ Tabak und Kaffee Süchtigen ~