A lot of people are bashing this person online but these are awesome questions! Since I have an advanced degree in math, let’s see if I can answer them in 240 characters or less! https://twitter.com/aIeturner/status/1298372968838508546/video/1 …
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"What did you need it for?" is, in fact, a good question The people dunking on her for it are betraying their own ignorance -- most of the stuff people like Pythagoras did WASN'T that immediately applicable to practical applications, much of it was treated as esoteric
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Pythagoras came from a culture of architects and engineers but he himself was not one, nor did the Pythagoreans induce some kind of sudden revolution in architecture and engineering Mathematics was *related* to the practical arts but it was its own thing
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But she believes they had no practical use because she doesn’t understand that the ancients applied mathematical principles in architecture and engineering.
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