I'm currently reading "Calculus Reordered: A history of the big ideas" by David M Bressoud, which really helped me contextualise all the peculiarities of calcul

I'm currently reading "Calculus Reordered: A history of the big ideas" by David M Bressoud, which really helped me contextualise all the peculiarities of calculus. It really does feel like a hodgepodge of poorly fitting parts that could use some revision in terms of notation and teaching, but I feel like that's part of the charm. I like that it encodes so much history and culture "up front". It reminds me of PHP. There is no way a good language designer would create PHP intentionally but as ugly as it was, it was brilliant in 1999. Index.php and you're done.