"Enlightenment is a feature of mathematics about which very little has been written." http://www.liceogiuliocesare.it/public/documenti/Rota_Phenomenology_Mathematical_Beauty.pdf …
@sarahdoingthing I'm less than a fraction of a percent of the mathematician Rota was, but this grates.
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@St_Rev would love examples -
@sarahdoingthing He seems to be building a strawman of What Mathematicians Value so he can compare it unfavorably to "enlightenment". -
@St_Rev do you think he's right that mathematicians have values they hide from themselves by talking about them in roundabout ways? -
@sarahdoingthing I think that pinning everything on aesthetics ignores the drives to explore and to overcome obstacles. -
@St_Rev I think he's saying aesthetics is "actually about" underlying structure and stuff -
@sarahdoingthing (Picard's theorem is a basic result in complex analysis, ie analysis over the field of complex numbers). -
@St_Rev I suspect Rota would be delighted with your objections, he was into dismantling the "Great Man" theory of science/math haha
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