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The critique of calculus as lacking in rigor goes much further back than that. Bishop Berkeley famously argued calculus was no more dependable than theology. It was only with Cauchy and the formalization of analysis in the 19th century that this issue would be put to bed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analyst

I wonder if the issues that this essay claims came up in Italy persisted in any way. I ask that, because there was later (1885-1935) an infamous breakdown in Italian mathematics (the "Italian School of Algebraic Geometry") due to foundational issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_school_of_algebraic_ge...

History doesn't repeat but it sometimes rhymes.



From a contemporary viewpoint, Berkeley seems to have been a bit of an edgelord in his defense of faith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone#Origin

(or am I doing him an injustice and he was running with the whole Cartesian Demon thing to see just how far he could take it?)

Mumford (a grand-advisee of Castelnuovo's) on the infamous school: https://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/qed/archive/209


Fwiw, (exotericised)

   Accidentally self-awakened patriotic^W self-reliant cynic
Seems like it could be somewhat ticklish, and

   Accidentally self-(right-)radicalising marginally-woke
Could almost be.

Btw, JD Vance claimed his wife is his spirit animal, so if he's a racist, he is at best the kind of racist who'd find it morally imperative that animals try and become human?

PS: have you figured out what math pros would call the satirical functor? It's alright to ask your kith kin or kollegen for help :)


Unless it be one of the functors from Mathematics Made Difficult (1971) I shall have to ask my kith for counsel...


Short answer is no.

(Your two Cat's are presumably, "listenable now" and "listenable later"?)

Mid-answer is.. (depending on how _useful_ it appears to be ;) I'll find out which case(s) from Mumonkan that was soon enough..

Btw, Hiroyuki concluding "1% Perspiration" (apologetic to Edison?), calls himself "Ronin".. so.. Takuan or Musashi?

https://youtu.be/SoHxYBMuegE?t=2m09s

Ps: "weaponized kernel-bugs" (personal translation from preface:)




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