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by enthdegree 670 days ago
Pemulis’ absolutely worthless and wrong but also completely self-assured descriptions of calculus are part of his character
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lukas099 670 days ago
That's funny, I just got to that part in my rereading of IJ and I had no idea it was completely wrong.
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zkldi 669 days ago
That makes sense to be honest, I thought it was intentional but then seeing so many other maths errors in other DFW works led me to believe it might very well not be.
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