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  • John Gabriel's New Calculus

    From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 6 19:26:08 2024
    John Gabriel's New Calculus must surely have been discussed at sci.math
    before, but I can't find it by searching.

    I'd be more inclined to believe that Donald Trump is a very stable
    genius than that someone who decribes himself like this is to be taken seriously:

    "I am a genius who discovered the New Calculus - the first and only
    rigorous formulation of calculus in human history, and quite possibly
    the greatest mathematician of all time."

    A severe case of Dunning-Kruger, I suspect, but I'd be iterested to
    know what real mathematicians (which I am not) think.

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    Athel cb

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  • From Python@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 6 22:04:43 2024
    Le 06/08/2024 à 19:26, Athel Cornish-Bowden a écrit :
    John Gabriel's New Calculus must surely have been discussed at sci.math before, but I can't find it by searching.

    Oh dear... He posted THOUSANDS of posts here, mostly with the nickname
    "Eram semper recta". Here is a message I posted back then:

    https://groups.google.com/g/sci.math/c/JnRiJEX7r6A/m/BiUyKjstBwAJ

    I'd be more inclined to believe that Donald Trump is a very stable
    genius than that someone who decribes himself like this is to be taken seriously:

    "I am a genius who discovered the New Calculus - the first and only
    rigorous formulation of calculus in human history, and quite possibly
    the greatest mathematician of all time."

    A severe case of Dunning-Kruger, I suspect, but I'd be iterested to know
    what real mathematicians (which I am not) think.

    Do you remember "Knol", the attempt from Google to overcome Wikipedia
    with "experts"? Well... John Gabriel succeeded in posting numerous
    articles there. Well done Google!

    You probably checked YouTube channel "New calculus" which is ridiculous
    and abusive on all aspects, as well as John's articles on academia
    (I managed to remove some of them, and some YT videos as well, his
    geogebra account and his Facebook account).

    Back in the day a talented student wrote a few blog articles about
    John Gabriel nonsense, unfortunately it is not online anymore (John
    Gabriel may have been threatened him, as he usually do). It is style
    available from archive.org though :

    https://web.archive.org/web/20180724174732/http://blog.logicalphalluses.net/category/science/math-logic/

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  • From Python@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 6 22:06:58 2024
    Le 06/08/2024 à 22:04, Python a écrit :
    Le 06/08/2024 à 19:26, Athel Cornish-Bowden a écrit :
    John Gabriel's New Calculus must surely have been discussed at
    sci.math before, but I can't find it by searching.

    another article from 2010 :

    http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2010/02/04/a-crank-among-cranks-debating-john-gabriel/

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  • From Moebius@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 6 21:42:58 2024
    Am 06.08.2024 um 19:26 schrieb Athel Cornish-Bowden:

    A severe case of Dunning-Kruger, I suspect, [...]

    I'd say it's MORE than that ...

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  • From Moebius@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 6 22:09:11 2024
    Am 06.08.2024 um 22:04 schrieb Python: [...]

    To make a long story short: John Gabriel's "New Calculus" is complete
    nonsense.

    Agree?

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  • From Python@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 6 22:14:00 2024
    Le 06/08/2024 à 22:09, Moebius a écrit :
    Am 06.08.2024 um 22:04 schrieb Python: [...]

    To make a long story short: John Gabriel's "New Calculus" is complete nonsense.

    Agree?



    Not at all! It is a great milestone in the history of mathematics.
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    just kidding.

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  • From Moebius@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 6 22:17:30 2024
    Am 06.08.2024 um 22:14 schrieb Python:
    Le 06/08/2024 à 22:09, Moebius a écrit :
    Am 06.08.2024 um 22:04 schrieb Python: [...]

    To make a long story short: John Gabriel's "New Calculus" is complete
    nonsense.

    Agree?

    Not at all! It is a great milestone in the history of mathematics.

    Yes, of course! Remember: The "New Calculus" is "the first and only
    rigorous formulation of calculus in human history" (John Gabriel).

    Nuff said. :-)

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