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From the article: “Physics is not taught or practiced by reading and interpreting Newton’s Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis, Geometry is not done b
by ycombinete 4y ago
From the article:
“Physics is not taught or practiced by reading and interpreting Newton’s Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis, Geometry is not done by studying Euclid’s Elements, and so on”
- jovial_cavalier 4y agoBut it is. Especially for the last one. Graduate level geometry courses still go back to the elements at the beginning of the semester. I know, because I've taken them.
- ycombinete 4y agoI'm not saying that it isn't. It just seemed worth sharing that the paper used the same example as you, inverted.