Jan. 31st, 2014

dennisgorelik: (2009)
-----
http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
Since from the time of Newton to now, we have come close to doubling knowledge every 17 years, more or less. And we cope with that, essentially, by specialization
...
books which leave out what's not essential are more important than books which tell you everything because you don't want to know everything.
-----

Hamming said it 28 years ago.
Now Wikipedia plays role of "essential-only" books.
Brevity is king (and made Twitter popular).
dennisgorelik: (2009)
There is no Russian article that corresponds to English "Calculus" article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus

Does it mean that Russian math school does not like defining calculus as a separate subfield in math?

Profile

dennisgorelik: 2020-06-13 in my home office (Default)
Dennis Gorelik

June 2025

S M T W T F S
1234 567
891011 12 13 14
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 13th, 2025 09:15 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios