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Another factor: I know several people who went into math because it could not be politicized. There was not a party line to toe.
by kaitai 9y ago
Another factor: I know several people who went into math because it could not be politicized. There was not a party line to toe.
- indigochill 9y agoThey should hear about the Pythagoreans' discovery of irrational numbers (in which the discoverer is said to have been drowned at sea for undermining their belief that only positive ratios could exist): https://brilliant.org/discussions/thread/discovery-of-irrational-numbers/ https://brilliant.org/discussions/thread/discovery-of-irrati...
- the_d00d 9y agoInteresting point, but if I remember correctly it was religious zeal rather than political.