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>Don't. Calculus is going to become as obsolete and antiquated as studying Euclid's Elements Yeah, as antiquated and obsolete that we basically have every high
by hollandheese 1y ago
>Don't. Calculus is going to become as obsolete and antiquated as studying Euclid's Elements
Yeah, as antiquated and obsolete that we basically have every high school student do it in the United States. You know, the class we call GEOMETRY. Because you do know, that high school geometry classes are just basically using cleaned up and modernized texts based on Euclid's Elements, right?
Sounds good. More people will study Calculus than ever before. Good plan.
- ryandv 1y agoWhy are you not pasting the full sentence and blatantly strawmanning by taking my words out of context? > high school geometry classes are just basically using cleaned up and modernized texts based on Euclid's Elements, right? So you are admitting then that Euclid is too antiquated and required "clean up" and "modernization" to be presented to modern American audiences? Do those "cleaned up and modernized texts" still have you do compass and straightedge proofs? What about instruction in the use of an abacus? Fuck modern mathematical algebraic notation too, let's expend paragraphs of ancient Greek to describe a mathematical object that would be one line in modern notation.
- hollandheese 1y agoYour argument was utterly absurd on its own, no strawmanning was needed. Your followup here is also absurd and shows your complete lack of understanding of mathematics and its history.