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minus-squareCassa@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoTbh, I want my memes with sources. and this one is strange… https://civilizationchronicles.com/roman-engineering-and-mathematics/ claims that mathmatics were essensial to roman engineering. whereas this (only abstract avaliable…) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-66494-0_25 claim that mathmatics were but an auxillary science? 🤔 nontheless mathmatics seems to have been quite understood and used by the roman engineers building among other things, aqueducts
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoThe joke is that calculus as a field of mathematics didn’t exist until millennia after the fall of the empire
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoAstrology was so important to the Greeks, they figured out the elliptical orbits of the planets (up to Jupiter) and how to compute them without calculus.
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoRight, I’m not denying that. People have always been smart. The problem that calculus solved was the intensely difficult algebra that it replaced
Tbh, I want my memes with sources. and this one is strange…
https://civilizationchronicles.com/roman-engineering-and-mathematics/ claims that mathmatics were essensial to roman engineering.
whereas this (only abstract avaliable…) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-66494-0_25 claim that mathmatics were but an auxillary science? 🤔
nontheless mathmatics seems to have been quite understood and used by the roman engineers building among other things, aqueducts
The joke is that calculus as a field of mathematics didn’t exist until millennia after the fall of the empire
Astrology was so important to the Greeks, they figured out the elliptical orbits of the planets (up to Jupiter) and how to compute them without calculus.
Right, I’m not denying that. People have always been smart. The problem that calculus solved was the intensely difficult algebra that it replaced