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"I'm not sure every programmer should read Elements - maybe, but its a little abstract these days." I don't understand the "these days". Does Geometry decay? O
by numeromancer 15y ago
"I'm not sure every programmer should read Elements - maybe, but its a little abstract these days."
I don't understand the "these days". Does Geometry decay? Or logic? What is the half-life of a Pythagoras' right-triangle theorem?
- feral 15y agoFair comment: if the geometry is done right, the geometry should be timeless. But whether the particular presentation is worth reading, can change. 150 years ago, every person hoping to do anything vaguely mathematical should probably have read Elements. But now, there is so much other material to pick from, I'm not sure it'd be a good use of time - it might now be a little on the abstract side, to recommend it to all modern programmers. Thats what I was trying to get at; I should have phrased it better.