"Enlightenment is a feature of mathematics about which very little has been written." http://www.liceogiuliocesare.it/public/documenti/Rota_Phenomenology_Mathematical_Beauty.pdf …
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@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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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing I think it’s so incredibly rare for mathematicians to talk honestly about what they are doing that > -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing > ANY claims at all are both hugely valuable and likely to be somewhat off/simplistic/exaggerated. -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing I agree that his oracular stance is annoying and makes me want to argue—and was my experience of him in person too— -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing but on the other hand I agree with, and find insightful, all his examples in the cases where I know the specifics. -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing This may just mean I have similar mathematical taste to his, and that is why I found him an inspiring teacher… -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing but I’d be curious if there were large disagreements on the part of other mathematicians. -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing To take your example, I found complex analysis repellent, but > -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing I just read about Picard’s theorem on the wiki, and it does sound cool intuitively.
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