Calculus Book Online - Free!

by VM44 5 Replies latest jw friends

  • VM44
    VM44

    The Watchtower published articles on many topics.

    Reading the Awake! magazine over a period of years has been compared to being equivalent to a college education.

    But, where are the articles on math? In particular, nothing has ever been published in the Awake about Calculus, which was the mathematics that really ushered in modern science and technology.

    Nothing in the Watchtower Library at all, not on Calculus, Algebra, or Trigonometry!

    This so-called "College Education" is deficient!

    Does mathematics really have little or no application to Bible study?

    I found a free online text on calculus that looks readable. People may want to download it.

    "Eementary Calculus: An Approach Using Infinitesimals," On-line Edition, by H. Jerome Keisler .

    http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html

  • Mulan
    Mulan

    Whooeee! Calculus. Just what I want to cuddle up to read.

    Just kidding. I know people who would go for it.

  • DJ
    DJ

    The WT definately dabbles in fuzzy math. You know, 1914 and 607.....They wouldn't want their followers knowing how to add or subtract tooooo well.

  • onacruse
    onacruse

    VM:

    Does mathematics really have little or no application to Bible study?

    One misconception a lot of people have is that math has the answer for every physical phenomenon. A study of partial differential equations, as an example, shows that in fact the great majority of physical sysems are not precisely definable, and we must resort to "approximation methods" in order to get any kind of useful information. And that's just fine...we can build tremendous structures and send satellites to other planets, using this technique.

    In this sense, I'd say that math does have application to Bible study: a professional mathematician readily admits the limitations of his techniques and knowledge; fundamentalist theologians, especially cultic groups like the WTS, compulsively assert that they have the definitive and final answer for everything.

    Neither life, or the Bible, are that simple.

    Craig

  • Blueblades
    Blueblades

    They have confused calculus with calculate and calulating.Calulating: Shrewd,Cunning,Scheming in a selfish way.They are good at calulating TRICKonometry again confusing this with trigonometry.

    Seriously,they can't even do ZERO YEARS correctly!

    Blueblades

  • blueyes
    blueyes

    I won't belabor this issue, so In 2 words,

    That's hogwash.....

    Blu

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