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Reasonable Hope (Math) · Saturday · 4 min

When Working Wasn’t Enough

Calculus transformed mathematics and science long before its foundations were fully understood. Mathematicians returned to fine-tune ideas such as limits—not because calculus had failed, but because getting the right answers was not the same as understanding why it worked.

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Calculus transformed mathematics and science long before its foundations were fully understood. Mathematicians returned to fine-tune ideas such as limits—not because calculus had failed, but because getting the right answers was not the same as understanding why it worked.

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