Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder
Yeah, proofs are pretty bad, though necessary. I'd much rather use it.
Proofs are really one of the most fundamental bases of math. Without them, anyone can come up with anything and claim it's true through specific examples.

As for anyone who said a Physicist invented Calculus, that's a lie. Anyone who is a scientist of any kind is a mathematician first, and a scientist second. Newton didn't really invent calculus, but he did progress calculus more than anyone ever did in recorded history. The ancient Greeks already knew of infinity, by dividing a round segment of a circle into infinitely many pieces to calculate its area.

I'm glad this thread spawned off more responses that I had initially hoped. Hopefully anyone reading this thread will get an idea that math is the fundamental base for advancement in life.