Calculus was/is cool, because I could be applied t...

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[hastebrot]

Calculus was/is cool, because I could be applied to actually solve problems. Back then there even was no fundamental ground needed. It justed worked.

A leading critic was the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne. Berkeley had a religious agenda; [...] So he attacked logical inconsistencies in the foundations of calculus, presumably hoping to discredit the resulting science.