2026-09-21 00:45 UTC
what, no! Calculus was not hard to understand, it really wasn’t until the conceivement of real analysis that everyone lost their shit what it means for a function to be discontinuous. That, and well the Dirac delta function making a prescense in signals and physics.
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@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2026-09-21 04:04
I feel like the real tipping point for math was around the same time as physics, and for a similar reason. Quantum mechanics and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems touch at a similar sort of principle: there is a sort of conceptual bedrock beyond which logic fundamentally cannot extend.