For any mathematician alive today, mathematics is a subject that studies formally-defined concepts, with a focus on the establishment of truth (based on accepted axioms)
Absolutely, however teaching "formally define concepts, axioms, proofs, etc" are taught in PLANE GEOMETRY, not so much in calculation/algebra type classes.
2025-07-20 07:02:51
"A very rare exception is suovetaurilia"
Thanks, Harmut for introducing us to the ancient Roman form of Turducken.
2025-07-19 09:52:44
Re: changing systems of roman-alphabet spellings in japanese: it would be good to get Hartmut's input, since (IIRC) there was a systematic change in "official" German spelling ten? twenty? years ago.
Re: English taking over the world. There's a saying that "English is the Lingua Franca of Science".
Which I find amusing because "Lingua Franca" literally means "French", but (IIRC) is in Latin.
So there's three of the contenders for 'language to take over everything' right there in one sentence.
Why, yes, I *am* easily amused, why do you ask?
For any mathematician alive today, mathematics is a subject that studies formally-defined concepts, with a focus on the establishment of truth (based on accepted axioms)
Absolutely, however teaching "formally define concepts, axioms, proofs, etc" are taught in PLANE GEOMETRY, not so much in calculation/algebra type classes.
"A very rare exception is suovetaurilia"
Thanks, Harmut for introducing us to the ancient Roman form of Turducken.
Re: changing systems of roman-alphabet spellings in japanese: it would be good to get Hartmut's input, since (IIRC) there was a systematic change in "official" German spelling ten? twenty? years ago.
Re: English taking over the world. There's a saying that "English is the Lingua Franca of Science".
Which I find amusing because "Lingua Franca" literally means "French", but (IIRC) is in Latin.
So there's three of the contenders for 'language to take over everything' right there in one sentence.
Why, yes, I *am* easily amused, why do you ask?