The Story of Calculus - Steven Strogatz 2022 Ulam Memorial Lecture 1/2

[LeonGalindoStenutz]

54:52 "Calculus is capturing the trend of reality over a tremendous number of orders of magnitude of space and time and substance and everything and it's based on a lie but it is capturing something true... i think it is very well said by Picasso: 'Art is a lie that makes us realize truth'... so i really do think that is the lesson, that is the story, of calculus."

- Steven Strogatz.

Commentary: Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Deeply illustrates the beauty, function, and awe-inspiring place of calculus in enabling humans to not only look ever more deeply into the nature, structure, and essence of reality -- but to participate ever more actively in the co-creation and unfolding of reality!


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[MarvinMonroe]

Wow awesome Wouk lived to be 103 years old. I'm pretty early in the video if he mentions that
Edit: literally 15 seconds after I posted he mentioned it

[robertkirby]

His main example of Usain Bolt is unfortunate. I'm afraid this is an example of a mathematician extrapolating about a subject he doesn't know much about. In fact ALL 100 meter runners are slowing down by the end of 100m. A close look at his second data example shows this. In many years of analysis of 100 meter championship runners, track experts know that humans cannot sustain acceleration for 100 meters. Too bad, but a good illustration of theory vs. practice.