Leibniz did nothing wrong

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omega

seed: 64 (6 nominations)

previous opponent: seven

class: infinite ordinal

definition: the first number that goes after all the natural numbers

-1 (negative one)

seed: 33 (15 nominations)

previous opponent: twenty-three

class: negative unit

definition: the first number that goes before all the natural numbers. I mean assuming that you're counting zero as a natural number, which it isn't always. and also ignoring all the non-integers. whatever these two have a duality thing going on you get the idea

Jonathan Gleason was my friend who committed suicide just over a month ago… and I just found out that he wrote this 800+ page analysis textbook. By himself. Because he was teaching analysis and he was dissatisfied with the textbook he was assigned so he just…. wrote his own.

Even if you haven’t done any math… please just take a look at this. Scroll through it as fast as you like. It’s incredible that he put so much work and so much free time into this… I’m still in awe and I really want everyone to see it. In particular, if you want a good laugh, look at chapter 5 of the analysis textbook. The opening paragraph is SO Johnny.

I’ve taken some of the best/easiest to follow snippets and provide them here, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have:

“Da fuq”.

Oh thank god.

At least he admits when he’s being sloppy.

God, I wish more math textbooks read like this.

And last but not least, my absolute favorite part, the opening to the chapter on integration.