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| Aug 29, 2020 at 19:14 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Karl Marx and the Foundations of Differential Calculus by Hubert Kennedy gives a nice discussion of Marx's investigations into calculus. At the time, the received view of the derivative (following Leibniz) was a ratio of infinitesimals, which today we would find lacking in rigor. Marx perceived this difficulty and took some nontrivial steps toward a modern rigorous account. | |
| Aug 21, 2020 at 6:20 | comment | added | darij grinberg | Does any of this go beyond philosophical ramblings about basic definitions? Legit question -- I haven't seen the entire work. | |
| Aug 21, 2020 at 0:59 | comment | added | Gro-Tsen | @YemonChoi Indeed, this answer should be reformulated as “Karl Marx wrote political texts that have gained some measure of celebrity”. 😁 | |
| Aug 20, 2020 at 18:07 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Isn't this the exact reverse of what the question is asking for? | |
| Aug 20, 2020 at 18:00 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Ben Webster♦ | ||
| Aug 20, 2020 at 17:06 | history | answered | Kim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |