Arithmetic was always a stumbling block for Marx. He often made mistakes in simple calculations. Marx complained to F. Engels in the letter on January, 11, 1858: «In elaborating the principles of economics I have been so damnably held up by errors in calculation that in despair I have applied myself to a rapid revision of algebra. I have never felt at home with arithmetic. But by making a detour via algebra, I shall quickly get back into the way of things» .
Marx's «blitzkrieg» on mathematics failed. His study of it lasted more than 30 years. At first it was only sporadic, on an ad hoc basis, and only in the 1870s did it take on a systematic character. But as a result, only a few notes (fair copies), which set out the basic concepts of differential calculus and its elementary operations, are considered as independent works of Marx on mathematics. But these notes do not at all testify to the level of Marx's knowledge in the field of differential calculus. They were the «tip of the iceberg», these texts are based on a broad basis of matemathical studies.
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