Tincture May 29, 2019
I always thought that calculus was a prerequisite for medical school admission because it is the ‘mathematics of change’, providing a analytic framework to help us understand the dynamic nature of human biology. However, in the years hence, I have come to appreciate that the real value of learning calculus was not in the math, but the framework it provided to help sort out (integrate) the relationships between related concepts, and derive new points of view in the context of another, understood perspective.
This was driven home for me recently, as I reorganized my office, and realized that there were a handful of references — articles and books — all written before 1985, that have become functions in my capacity to understand and...
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