Re: pi in the sky

double d wrote:
|a) Style differ noticeably even across cultures. In his travels, Mark
|has seen 4 thousand year old math scrolls in China and Inca math in
|South America. Some cultures don't like the "Theorem-Proof" format.

I don't know that there's any evidence that a culture was
aware of the art of proving theorems but "didn't like" it.
Attempting to make the relationships clear and certain seems
extremely natural.

There was an article in Scientific American about Japanese
mathematics during their period of isolation. They seem to
have taken special interest in certain kinds of plane geometry
problems. But that doesn't strike me as all that radical a
difference in emphasis.

Torkel Franzen wrote:
| You are too modest. He has eaten these scrolls, reducing them
|through thorough mastication to their essential wisdom. He has then
|marketed the excreted remains, making millions. There is a lesson
|here for us all.

You're weird.

Keith Ramsay

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