Beautiful essay by Niccolò Guicciardini on how in the history of mathematics “our muses haunt us with their divergent demands”:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17498430.2018.1518844 …
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Mathematics compels us to see “texts that powerfully transcend their historical situatedness,” while history draws us to “the perishable detail and messy entanglement of order and contingency that make our lives unique, unrepeatable, yet typical of the culture we live in.”
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That is indeed an elegant phrase.
9:14 AM - 13 Oct 2018
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