[Edu-sig] recruiting for delta-calc / lambda-calc among post-algebra students

[kirby urner]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:04 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Edu-siggers might be interested in a rhetorical move, mainly for PR
> reasons (recruiting, morale...), to rebrand "differential / integral
> calculus" (Newton-Leibniz stuff) as also (equivalently) "delta calculus"
> (picture Greek letter del hyphen calculus).
>
>
I should refer to it as "delta" not "del" as the del operator is an upside
down delta, the Nabla symbol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_%28letter%29  #  <-- this one for
delta-calculus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabla_symbol

nabla-calculus could be something else again; I believe that's an unclaimed
domain.

As CSers here know, lambda-calc *is* already claimed (Alonzo Church picked
the letter) and roughly leads, through Category Theory and elementary
design patterns (and stuff), to our familiar OO-Hobbitdom (or whatever this
place is).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus

Kirby
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