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Reading the word "pseudo-problems" sets me off to a rough start. But calling problems stupid merely because they're unsolvable is a mortal sin, specially if the
by tpeo 9y ago
Reading the word "pseudo-problems" sets me off to a rough start. But calling problems stupid merely because they're unsolvable is a mortal sin, specially if there's a non-trivial reason why we cannot mathematically go from this to that. That the impossibility of squaring the circle is due to it's equivalence with the transcendentality of π is in itself an interesting piece of mathematics.
- marcosdumay 9y agoHe didn't call them stupid because they were unsolvable. He called them stupid because they didn't exist on any practice. And, of course, the knowledge that solved them also become essential to other areas of Math, so I also don't like his framing.