02-10-2013, 12:24 PM
Find it quite witty and elegantly phrased. Can't go in depth right now.
this: "addition became multiplication," bc that indeed was so, I find quite fascinating. It starts a whole firework of associations here (e.g. ancient Egyptian maths. the "invention of "zero", and of course Leibniz and universal language for the sciences
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteris...niversalis ) and machine translation to name a few)
Enjoyed the read.
cheers
Serge
this: "addition became multiplication," bc that indeed was so, I find quite fascinating. It starts a whole firework of associations here (e.g. ancient Egyptian maths. the "invention of "zero", and of course Leibniz and universal language for the sciences
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteris...niversalis ) and machine translation to name a few)
Enjoyed the read.
cheers
Serge