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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(And yes, I know that she clearly doesn't actually know who Pythagoras was or know anything about ancient Greece and she's confusing geometry for algebra, which was formalized and named after a book written in Baghdad over 1,000 years later But that's not the point)
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I think she's also struggling with the aims of science vs engineering. "Practical use" in the sense of "can we get plumbing first" is itself an ancient argument that we still have in academia to this day. Even I troll mathematicians about number theory and how pointless it is.
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Describes real things != real
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