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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SteveMundie and

      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

      2 replies 2 retweets 11 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SteveMundie and

      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

      1 reply 1 retweet 12 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SteveMundie and

      Boolean logic, for instance, is very important NOW, it's foundational to computer science and the whole world of software engineering But it certainly wasn't when George Boole was alive in the 19th century So why'd he spend so much time on it

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SteveMundie and

      (It's not necessarily so different from Pythagoras -- his academic work appears to have been strongly motivated by his "side interest" in theology and mysticism, despite proclaiming himself an agnostic deist He had some kind of religious vision of "Spinoza's God" as a teenager)

      2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SteveMundie and

      Her whole thing saying "Math isn't real" is a trollish way to say it but, I mean, she's right -- it's an abstract construct that isn't directly related to the physical world until you specifically use it in that way The argument for its "reality" is quasi-religious

      2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SteveMundie and

      (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)

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    7. Brenton Poke‏ @BrentonPoke 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SteveMundie and

      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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @BrentonPoke @SteveMundie and

      The joke about how number theorists used to revel in being the most useless branch of mathematics, until digital encryption suddenly made prime factorization an incredibly important and valuable field of study

      1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @BrentonPoke and

      Which made them very angry and set them all to dedicating themselves to find a way to solve prime factorization in polynomial time, thus destroying digital encryption and making themselves comfortably useless again (While also collapsing the world economy etc)

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    10. Brenton Poke‏ @BrentonPoke 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @SteveMundie and

      I will never understand number theorists

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Aug 2020
      Replying to @BrentonPoke @SteveMundie and

      Dr. Janek from the movie Sneakers was a mean stereotype of the kind of mathematician who would invent such a thing but not entirely unfair

      5:51 PM - 26 Aug 2020
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