Kuhn's theory suffers from a fatal flaw. It explains the succession from one paradigm to another in sociological or psychological terms, rather than as having primarily to do with the objective merit of the rival explanations. Yet unless one understands science as a quest for explanations, the fact that it does find successive explanations, each objectively better than the last, is inexplicable. (David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality)
All books that I know that have the word "advanced" in the title are stupid. E.g.: Advanced Calculus.
On the other hand, books that claim to be introductory can be arbitrarily complicated. Example: "An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of the Navier-Stokes Equations: Volume 2: Nonlinear Steady Problems"
PS: the exponential decay function never stops.
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Kuhn's theory suffers from a fatal flaw. It explains the succession from one paradigm to another in sociological or psychological terms, rather than as having primarily to do with the objective merit of the rival explanations. Yet unless one understands science as a quest for explanations, the fact that it does find successive explanations, each objectively better than the last, is inexplicable. (David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality)
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All books that I know that have the word "advanced" in the title are stupid. E.g.: Advanced Calculus. On the other hand, books that claim to be introductory can be arbitrarily complicated. Example: "An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of the Navier-Stokes Equations: Volume 2: Nonlinear Steady Problems" PS: the exponential decay function never stops.