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Yeah I think you are hitting the on what I think is math reduction thinking. That formalized process of thinking is the esencse of what math is. It's quantitati
by xphos 4y ago
Yeah I think you are hitting the on what I think is math reduction thinking. That formalized process of thinking is the esencse of what math is. It's quantitative instead of qualitative. Before math formalized those things it's all an eyeballing and impossible to convey without demonstrations. The simple form of that is for baking but if you gave someone an excel sheet and step by step instructions for building radio antennas they can do it because its been formalized. And this certainly transfers to programming because the writing of a program formalizes the recipe
- sicp-enjoyer 4y ago> It's quantitative instead of qualitative. Advanced math typically starts with logic and structures, not numbers. Even when they study numbers, they tend to be focusing on their qualitative properties: compactness, convexity, primeness, etc.