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according 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
by SFJulie 10y ago
according 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