Re:"10 Lessons of an MIT Education" by Gian-Carlo Rota
by kashif on Thursday September 13, 2007 @09:08AM
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Mathematics and mathematicians are both over-hyped. Actually, in my opinion the mathematical notation is the worst 'language' ever.
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Re:"10 Lessons of an MIT Education" by Gian-Carlo Rota
by redneck on Friday September 14, 2007 @08:41AM
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Mathematical ideas are among the most timeless and beautiful of all the things discovered by civilization. The fact that such pure knowledge (often researched for purely recreational or aesthetic reasons) has so many useful applications in so many areas is something profoundly surprising and humbling.