Quote:
Originally Posted by Brutha  While I also think that math is important I don't think that you will learn very much by reading three math books. To learn math you have to actually solve math problem. |
What about math history? About math logic and philosophy? About the tale of euclidean geometry and how it finally gave way to non-euclidean fields and how they relate to general relativity? About people like Gauss and Galois? About proofs that went unsolved for centuries such as Fermat's last thereom? About the Russell paradox, or Godel's incompleteness theorem?
There's so much to learn about math that doesn't require a problem sovling effort on your part. So much intellectually
important stuff. I'm a little biased, but I really don't understand how a "general knowledge project" could be missing one of the most important intellectual developments of mankind's history.