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In Argentina a military governor from our last dictatorship banned teaching Set theory because it was a "collectivist idea" and was "against the individual". Yo
by nahuel0x 6y ago
In Argentina a military governor from our last dictatorship banned teaching Set theory because it was a "collectivist idea" and was "against the individual". You can learn more here (spanish): https://www.nexos.com.mx/?p=3404 https://www.nexos.com.mx/?p=3404
Specifically, they banned the book "Conceptos básicos de matemática moderna" (Modern Maths Basic Concepts) / Hernández-Rojo-Rabuffetti
- grugagag 6y agoThat is absolutely ridiculous. Wow!
- 082349872349872 6y agoIt's a good thing no one ever told General Menendez[1] about how commonly arrows are reversed in category theory. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23907276 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23907276 Heraclitus having come up with πάντα ῥεῖ, he'd probably be the first one to carry a banner saying "Down with Heraclitus!" [1] No doubt the General would have disapproved of Bajofondo as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8SVYDvMVzY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8SVYDvMVzY
- nahuel0x 6y agoWell, category theory is pure subversive stuff, just check the Lawvere-Hegel link or Grothendieck giving lectures at the Hanoi jungle to protest Vietnam War :)
- 082349872349872 6y agoIf even Joan Baez's cousin John doesn't get the Hegelian Taco, it may take me a little while to work up to it. Speaking of Hanoi, leg warmers were another item of pop culture found on both sides of the Iron Curtain. "Hanoi" Jane vs. Liliya Sabitova https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg_VnsmATFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg_VnsmATFE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_SXPbDPMVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_SXPbDPMVE (bonus track: Hart, "Peace for Triple Piano" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRW3FMuttY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRW3FMuttY )
- nahuel0x 6y agoI suspect you are a GPT-3 bot :)
- 082349872349872 6y agoI'd like to send a shout out to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine, Borges' Library of Babel, and Mark V. Shaney...
- elcomet 6y agoThis reminds me of the Indiana Pi Bill that tried to pass a legislation concerning the value of pi
- cogman10 6y agoAlways fun when legislators try and get in the way of reason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill
- Steko 6y agoConservapedia’s math articles have a pretty amusing history: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Conservapedian_mathematics https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Conservapedian_m...
- Steko 6y agoAlso on the topic of set theory: https://boingboing.net/2012/08/07/what-do-christian-fundamentali.html https://boingboing.net/2012/08/07/what-do-christian-fundamen...
- 082349872349872 6y agoWow. But come to think of it, set theory is subtle stuff compared with 1+1+1 = 1 (unless they're talking about characteristic 2?) or reading the old testament under a non-injective mapping (in particular, the Book of Ruth, a non-identity element, seems to be in their kernel?). Q. what's an anagram of Banach-Tarski?
- new2628 6y agoTo be fair, the "new math" of the 60s deserved that.
- 082349872349872 6y agoIf you disliked the new math, you'll detest Linderholm, Mathematics Made Difficult https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3693042-mathematics-made-difficult https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3693042-mathematics-made...
- new2628 6y agoI saw that a long time ago, it is hilarious.
- ksaj 6y agoTom Lehrer thought New Math was weird enough that he wrote a song about how to subtract with it. (Verse 2 is in base 8!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6OaYPVueW4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6OaYPVueW4