Even the simplest calculation in the purest mathematics can have terrible consequences. Without the invention of the infinitesimal calculus most of our technology would have been impossible. Should we say therefore that calculus is bad?

— Stanislaw Ulam Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991)

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