The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

Re:The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius by mythrwy on Sunday November 24, 2019 @12:43AM (#21618644)

In Newton's day a single person could probably learn all the math and science there was to be learned in the entire world.

Now things are much more specialized and require years of formal study just to get a base level of knowledge in one tiny aspect.

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Re:The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius by nobodyandproud on Friday November 29, 2019 @09:24PM (#21668123)

I doubt this is the case at all.

We have the luxury of hindsight to know which peculiar schools of thought were rubbish, so we don’t even teach them.

I’m sure there are many, many theorems built up with Euclidean Geometry that we don’t bother teaching anymore.

Because modern methods make the results trivial.

Today, what are we burdening upcoming scientists with unnecessarily?

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