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… arithmetic or mathematics …

May 13th, 2007 by dk

Ours is a culture that values arithmetic, but not mathematics. So we love numbers, because they are quantifiable. But we’ve lost any urge for elegance. Bigger is better, as in arithmetic. But reducing the factors to their simplest expression, that seems too difficult. It’s beyond us.

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