Author Archives
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hoi polloi
Robert K. Merton, in Science Technology and Society in XVII Century England makes the point that Reformation, since it helped promote the idea that one had to follow his judgement as regards faith and not official doctrine, at the same time… Read More ›
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Deus Sive Natura (again)
De natura et origine mentis Dove si dice dell’ebreo maledetto In Spinoza leggo che una successione di idee inadeguate -o di immaginazioni- e’ causa di distorta conoscenza ed ergo di distorta posizione dell’uomo nei confronti del mondo. La grande idea… Read More ›
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Dirac on religion
“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of… Read More ›
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Zellini – Gnomon
An interesting interview to Paolo Zellini. See also this Hermann Weyl “Über die neue Grundlagenkrise der Mathematik”
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Psychohistory: Bisher hat die Wissenschaft ihre Zyklopen-Bauten noch nicht gebaut
Asimov idea of Psychohistory needs being framed in the spirit of Marx grand project or Nietzsche Aphorism 7, “Etwas für Arbeitsame” in “Die fröhliche Wissenschatf” The following is a rephrasing of it, by Imperial College mathematician Dan Crisan (here a power… Read More ›
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Human and Horses
Human are not horses, says MIT economist Kenneth Rogoff and King Ludd is still dead. But Keynes thought differently, advancing the hypothesis of technological unemployment and another Nobel caliber academic, Leontieff, wrote an insightful article advancing the hypothesis that it… Read More ›
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Evolutionary Epistemology
Kant was the systematizer of Isaac Newton Physics’ implicit epistemology. The immediate discovery of Non-Euclidean geometries around 1830 and later on – at the beginning of 20th century: but Riemann conference is earlier (1854)- the discovery of Special relativity, destroyed… Read More ›
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Apropos STEM: Stalin and Soviet mathematics
“The teaching of mathematics in our schools is a suicidal scandal. How does it go in the University of Newton and Crick? If you get a first in mathematics, you can go on to research; if you get a good… Read More ›
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Outside the province of formal grammars
Daniel Dennet makes the point that “Darwin’s dangerous idea is that Design can emerge from mere Order via an algorithmic process that makes no use of pre-existing Mind”. Same is the idea of Turing, about unconscious, automatic, pattern formation leading… Read More ›
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Exit from Eden: Milutin Milanković and his cycles
Milutin Milanković is a very interesting figure of mathematician. His theory of cycles of glaciers is the scientific explanation of the historical fact of an Exit from Eden. That exit triggered the advanced civilizations of the Nile and Mesopotamian valleys,… Read More ›
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