Is there a specific time when mathematics became focused in proving properties under extremely general conditions, rather than doing things?
@raeez I agree that abstraction can be helpful and serve major purposes but is there somewhere where I can find the concentrated good stuff?
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@DanielleFong do you have a particular problem/phenomenon in mind? -
@raeez favorite problem is mathematical epistemology -- as in http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html … and http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Hamming.html … only formal - 1 more reply
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