[Marxism] Hegel on Mathematics (re: Badiou)

[Anthony Hartin]

"As Marx remarks (p. 3): 'First making the differentiation and then 
removing it therefore leads literally to nothing. The whole difficulty in
understanding the differential operation (as in the negation of the 
negation generally) lies precisely in seeing how it differs from such a 
simple procedure and therefore leads to real results.'
I'm reasonably competent when it comes to differentiation and for the life
of me I have no idea what the fuck that's supposed to mean."

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He's referring to the definition via difference quotients:

Derivate of f(x) = Limit(step->0) of [f(x+step)-f(x)]/step

In the limit of vanishing step this is essentially (in the 
numerator) subtracting it from itself. Its kind of cool when u think about 
it.