Some notes on a paper by Judith Grabiner on the 'if it works, do it' culture of 18th c mathematics, compared to the rigour that came later. Thanks @Meaningness for suggesting I stick them up somewhere public.https://drossbucket.com/2020/03/08/grabiner-on-eighteenth-century-mathematics/ …
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I hadn’t seen the Mumford email—very interesting! In a weird coincidence, I tweeted several things about him during your twitter break:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1233619162989092864?s=20 …
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Yep I missed that one, that's nuts that you were at a startup with Feynman and Mumford!
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