The video going viral was the result of a few specific things that feed a narrative, like the fact that she's saying this while putting on makeup, the mispronouncing "Pythagoras" as "Pythagoreas", her being a blonde teenage girl, etchttps://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/1299033364565958656 …
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And then people gave the exact wrong answer to it -- you DON'T, in fact, need the formalized study of mathematics to build big cities with aqueducts and sewer systems, cities like that were built a thousand years before Pythagoras, and Pythagoras had no interest in improving them
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Right! She's asking a question that so many of us philosophy majors were asking in high school. Where do these ideas come from? What's the genesis of abstract thought? The people who misinterpreted them are only showing their lack of intellectual curiosity.
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A while back, I was talking about "squaring the circle" being a problem ancient Babylonians were studying in 2000 BC to make measuring areas easier, bc they didn't have an good value of pi bc everything had to be computed by hand. So even when pi=256/81 you can still do good work
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You can even get pretty far with pi=3.
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