Comments on: Rational calculus http://acandystore.org/books/archives/2006/07/09/rational-calculus Overheard in a library Sun, 20 May 2012 06:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Will http://acandystore.org/books/archives/2006/07/09/rational-calculus#comment-9 Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:16:20 +0000 http://acandystore.org/books/archives/2006/07/09/rational-calculus#comment-9 "he never came close to succeeding in what can only be called a grandiose plan" Counterpoint: His math goes marching on. And you can make a VERY strong argument that the general level of bullshit in Western culture has declined greatly since his day, and is still dropping. Politics and war, commerce and finance, religion and superstition, biology and medicine... “he never came close to succeeding in what can only be called a grandiose plan”

Counterpoint: His math goes marching on. And you can make a VERY strong argument that the general level of bullshit in Western culture has declined greatly since his day, and is still dropping. Politics and war, commerce and finance, religion and superstition, biology and medicine…

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