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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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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And that's a great degree true through all of history -- mathematicians are always messing around with concepts simply because they're interesting Pythagoras would call it "sacred" while today someone might just say "elegant" But the applications don't drive the work
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