And the concept of a limit is what calculus depends on If you reject it, then you just reject calculus Which, again, is fine! You don't need to accept calculus if you don't want to! I only took AP Calculus because of pressure from my parents and my crush on the teacher!
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My hot AP Calc teacher when teaching us the delta-epsilon definition of a limit said "You don't actually need to know this to do calculus but mathematicians fought over it for a hundred years so the least you can do is know what it is"
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(One of the many reasons I was smitten A shining light among small town high school mathematics faculty)
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I love the fact that the reason that Graham's Number (a number so large that is not possible to comprehend the magnitude of) exists is it was an easily explained upper bound to a problem where the lower bound was 6.
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The lower bound is now 13, and the upper bound is 2^^2^^2^^9 Still large but phenomenally smaller than Graham's Number
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Yeah - and of course, the mathematicians themselves were of multiple opinions about if they were inventing math, or uncovering fundamentals of the universe from the mind of God. Ever since Pythagoras, really.
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Yeah I mean look if we are all just discovering truths from the mind of God then give God a little more credit for imagination The Platonic world of Forms, if it exists, is obviously a multiverse
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