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Re: 1669 1ed Mathematical Manual
From: Bill B
Date: 2017 Apr 30, 14:55 -0400
From: Bill B
Date: 2017 Apr 30, 14:55 -0400
On 4/30/2017 2:33 PM, Frank Reed wrote: > Math suffers from the same "cartoon history" problem that afflicts many > technical subjects including, of course, celestial navigation. It's > useful pedagogically to provide a shortened, polite society, highly > linear, formally "logical" history to engineering and science students, > but unfortunately these are pseudo-histories. The real thing is messy, > non-linear, political, and even mystical --affected by highly illogical > and frequently "un-scientific" beliefs and prejudices. "The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down." - A. Whitney Brown
