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It used to be less so
by staunton 2y ago
It used to be less so
- Sharlin 2y agoIndeed, Weierstrass was one of the people thanks to whom math became the pedantic endeavor we know it as today.
- pfdietz 2y agoWay back when, the rigor (or lack thereof) of calculus was a culture war issue. Bishop Berkeley famously argued the dubious foundations of calculus rendered it no more trustworthy than religion. So, there was external as well as internal motivation for mathematics to clean up its act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analyst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analyst
- Sharlin 2y agoOh wow, hadn't heard of this before!