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Differentiation can therefore be used to find speed and acceleration and many other physical quantities. Calculus was, and still is, the most powerful tool in science.
The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories & Things
Robert Solomon
Four steps: choose a field, learn enough to get to the frontier,
notice gaps, explore promising ones. This is how practically everyone
who's done great work has done it, from painters to physicists.
How to Do Great Work
paulgraham.com
But both the premise and the conclusion are wrong. The to be wealthy enough to offset its corrosive drawbacks, is wide of the mark. In market societies, if you get a reputation for notion that the market is a necessary evil, which allows people unfairness, people will not deal with you. In places where traditional, honour-based feudal societies gave way to commercial, prudence-based economies - say, Italy in 1400, Scotland in 1700, Japan in 1945 – the effect is civilising, not coarsening.
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
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