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> over the history of mathematics, analysis has been used to refer to just about everything that isn’t geometry Actually, at the start (2500 years ago) the wor
by jacobolus 6y ago
> over the history of mathematics, analysis has been used to refer to just about everything that isn’t geometry
Actually, at the start (2500 years ago) the word “analysis” in mathematics was only about geometry.
See e.g. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2250061 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2250061