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> the introduction of Fundamental Math is instructive. It is the fundation of the cargo cult story. What do you mean by that?
by ralfd 10y ago
> the introduction of Fundamental Math is instructive. It is the fundation of the cargo cult story.
What do you mean by that?
- guscost 10y agoNot sure, but this speech is always worth a read: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
- conistonwater 10y agoVladimir Arnold wrote quite a bit on such things. For example: http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~munsteg/arnold.html http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~munsteg/arnold.html, as well as other articles.
- SFJulie 10y agoaccording to Feynman autobiography the talk he gave was inspired by the feelings that he had reading the textbook while in the californian commission for it. At the time of the introduction of «Mahtématiques fondamentales» a french revolutionary (lol) methodology for learning maths. He expressed a concern that this kind of math did look savant, but was wrong in helping having intuition. Arithmetics vs geometry. Stuff for which he may be right since Bourbaki actually designed their math teaching on formalism over intuition/geometry after a feud with Poincaré who dismissed the influence of «french school» in his work...a very horrible crime of lèse majesté. The Ignorance of Bourbaki: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~ardm/bourbaki.pdf https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~ardm/bourbaki.pdf