On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:04 AM, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Edu-siggers might be interested in a rhetorical move, mainly for PR > reasons (recruiting, morale...), to rebrand "differential / integral > calculus" (Newton-Leibniz stuff) as also (equivalently) "delta calculus" > (picture Greek letter del hyphen calculus). > > I should refer to it as "delta" not "del" as the del operator is an upside down delta, the Nabla symbol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_%28letter%29 # <-- this one for delta-calculus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabla_symbol nabla-calculus could be something else again; I believe that's an unclaimed domain. As CSers here know, lambda-calc *is* already claimed (Alonzo Church picked the letter) and roughly leads, through Category Theory and elementary design patterns (and stuff), to our familiar OO-Hobbitdom (or whatever this place is). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus Kirby
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