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A Unified Calculus?

Posted by chrisd on from the limit-as-it-approaches-my-grades-in-school dept.

DeAshcroft writes "Science Daily is reporting that one Martin Bohner's work, "Asymptotic Behavior of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales," has made significant waves (ahem) in the mathematical community. The work is "part of a fairly new and exciting effort to unify continuous and discrete calculus" I guess it's time to re-learn long division."

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  1. It turns out this topic is not entirely new: by jerkface · · Score: 5, Informative

    The relationship between the discrete time scales approach and the unification of calculus has been widely known since S. Hilger published "Ein Masskettenkalkul mit Andwendung auf Zentrumsmannigfaltigkeiten" in 1988as his Ph.D. thesis. The problem remained for other to, um, elaborate on the connection. Martin Bohner, as one of the few individuals taking a great interest in this somewhat narrow area of the field, turns out to be the prime mover in the progress in the field. The really important development is that more people are going to take interest now and they will publish new and interesting results. Bohner's key accomplishment so far is proving to the community that this topic is worthy of more interest.

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