The interface to explore the infographics is rather…idiosyncratic. Reminds me of interfaces from the late 1990s. Anyways, fun to see this collection.
> Imagine this: Newton formalized calculus in 1671, yet the first (known) visualization of a continuous was drawn in 1669.
I guess the missing word is "curve?" I find that a little hard to believe; surely continuous curves were drawn much, much earlier, way before the terminology of continuity was available—for example, in the work of Euclid. Even if we ask that they be thought of as curves in the modern-day calculus-class sense of the word, surely Descartes's and Fermat's work counts as such.
Maybe you're just relaying information from the meta-infographic, though I can't find it (I find it charming but difficult to navigate); all I see is "1686: Empirical Observations."
(For that matter, the formal terminology of continuity as we learn it in calculus today had to wait until Cauchy and Weierstrass in the 19th century.)
The interface to explore the infographics is rather…idiosyncratic. Reminds me of interfaces from the late 1990s. Anyways, fun to see this collection.
Imagine this: Newton formalized calculus in 1671, yet the first (known) visualization of a continuous was drawn in 1669.
> Imagine this: Newton formalized calculus in 1671, yet the first (known) visualization of a continuous was drawn in 1669.
I guess the missing word is "curve?" I find that a little hard to believe; surely continuous curves were drawn much, much earlier, way before the terminology of continuity was available—for example, in the work of Euclid. Even if we ask that they be thought of as curves in the modern-day calculus-class sense of the word, surely Descartes's and Fermat's work counts as such.
Maybe you're just relaying information from the meta-infographic, though I can't find it (I find it charming but difficult to navigate); all I see is "1686: Empirical Observations."
(For that matter, the formal terminology of continuity as we learn it in calculus today had to wait until Cauchy and Weierstrass in the 19th century.)