Dr. Wildberger is notorious for having non-standard ideas about mathematics, including not believing in irrational numbers, etc. The ire that Pythagoreans had towards irrational numbers is still alive and well in…
Stupidity. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are brain dead....
This has not been about reason, logic, or truth for a long time now.
Every time somebody says "parenthesee" my nerves fray and my hair stands on end.
I remember reading this something like 40 years ago. At the time, I thought for sure it must be one of the surviving artifacts of the golden age of science fiction--what with its ruined earth (which must have been…
Dr. Wildberger is notorious for having non-standard ideas about mathematics, including not believing in irrational numbers, etc. The ire that Pythagoreans had towards irrational numbers is still alive and well in…
Stupidity. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are brain dead....
This has not been about reason, logic, or truth for a long time now.
Every time somebody says "parenthesee" my nerves fray and my hair stands on end.
I remember reading this something like 40 years ago. At the time, I thought for sure it must be one of the surviving artifacts of the golden age of science fiction--what with its ruined earth (which must have been…