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> To your second point, I would disagree that we learn maths that we may likely never directly use not because of historical fascination That was not my point.
by Maursault 4y ago
> To your second point, I would disagree that we learn maths that we may likely never directly use not because of historical fascination
That was not my point. No one learns math because of historical fascination. The point was simply the stories about the math are more interesting than the math itself, which isn't any stretch of the imagination.
- kuhewa 4y agoThat's comparing a tool to an insight though, like sure 'grammar' isn't as interesting as a poem. Math is interesting because despite being axiomatic there are all of these emergent things it can correctly predict about the world. To mix metaphors, there are very interesting stories that are at least in part in the grammar of math.