Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.

— Doron Zeilberger, 'Real' Analysis is a Degenerate Case of Discrete Analysis (2004)

From a paper in New Progress in Difference Equations (ICDEA 2001 proceedings, published 2004).

Topics: mathematics