Calculus
Summer, 2005
"I had a feeling once about Mathematics--that I saw it all. Depth beyond
depth was revealed to me--the Byss and Abyss. I saw--as one might see the
transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show--a quantity passing through
infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it
happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and
I let it go."
--Sir Winston
Churchill (1874-1965)
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
-Robert
Heinlein, Time Enough for Love