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About Kevin Delaney
TIME'S 1999 Man of the Year, Jeff Bezos, indicated that the primary reason for starting Amazon.com was not the lure of fame and fortune, but regret minimization. He started the world's largest Internet store because he would have regretted not starting an Internet store. I must admit that regret minimization is the same motivation for starting this web site-Descriptive Mathematics.
In 1982, a month or so after my twentieth birthday, I was taking a painting class and studied the art of visual perspective. During the class, I realized that it would be easy to derive the basic principals of The Calculus from a model of visual perspective. I quickly put together an outline for a book called the "Calculus in Perspective" (what a clever pun!). I believed that such a book would be more interesting and accessible to students than the rigorous Cauchy method.
I switched my major from arts to mathematics, and within two years flunked out of school. My main problem was that my work on the Calculus put me on the losing side of an argument that had been raging in the mathematics community for the last century. This conflict, of course, is the schism between logicists and intuitionists. Yes, that's right, "The Calculus in Perspective" bears the ugly moniker of intuitionism. As such it is basically unpublishable.
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