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Indiscrete Thoughts by Gian-Carlo Rota is full of this sort of thing [1]. In fact he made me see mathematics as a unique domain that escapes both empiricism and
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Indiscrete Thoughts by Gian-Carlo Rota is full of this sort of thing
[1]. In fact he made me see mathematics as a unique domain that
escapes both empiricism and rationalism. It's real and out there to be
discovered timelessly by each civilisation, and yet we make it all up
as we go along. There's nothing new under the sun - except the next
thing you can imagine.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/345801.Gian_Carlo_Rota https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/345801.Gian_Carlo_Rota
- actionfromafar 4y agoThat struck me too, but also interesting that the myth of heavy objects falling faster was understood to be false back then too, and that they might have had a grasp of gravity before Newton.