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Re: Why NEWTON IS A GOD


Article: <59q2ue$n9g@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: Why NEWTON IS A GOD
Date: 25 Dec 1996 02:18:54 GMT

In article <E2xEFr.8nK@stortek.com> Paul Gilmartin writes:
> The Zetas are in notable, but not automatically respectable,
> company here. Buckminster Fuller similarly denied calculus in an
> essay (which I read, coincidentally, in "No More Secondhand God".)
> Fuller committed the same blunder by not understanding limits, or
> not taking limits in the proper order.
> pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)

Delightful story, Paul. But regarding Bucky's "blunder", I wonder why he's famous and all those calculus instructors AREN'T.