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I like that the related Quanta articles are linked from each concept. The idea of teaching maths as an ontology of concepts and tools is very appealing because
by motohagiography 7y ago
I like that the related Quanta articles are linked from each concept. The idea of teaching maths as an ontology of concepts and tools is very appealing because it creates a "why," for each aspect. It's as though code did for math what the blues scale did for music, where suddenly a lot of amateurs could string a few ideas together and make something useful and good.
I'm working through "Content, Methods, and Meaning" now and what makes it great is it starts with what necessitated the invention of methods. The model in the Quanta map has a lot of potential.
- K0SM0S 7y agoI'd say this is part of the mainstream move from an "industrial" society (with mostly human robots and computers) to an "information" society (with mostly human modelers and architects, as robots and computers are now machines). We now start with the "why", see where knowledge fits in the puzzle of reality, where it plugs and how to find it; then only on a need-to-basis do we go deeper into the 'how'.