Comment by esafak
10 hours ago
Why wouldn't you honor the people that came up with a particular proof or approach? Do you also not care about who created a given artwork?
10 hours ago
Why wouldn't you honor the people that came up with a particular proof or approach? Do you also not care about who created a given artwork?
Math is an extremely useful tool. My interface with it should be 100% prioritized toward effectively using that tool. I'm glad we don't call them Turning machines for instance.
You talk like it fell out of the sky. Every result you've ever used was proposed by a mathematician.
> I'm glad we don't call them Turning machines for instance.
Are you referring to a Turing machine; the abstract model of a computer, actually named after someone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine
Your bizarre position seems to be that not knowing history somehow makes you more effective? This is honestly the dumbest take I have read all week.
I think all of the insults I'm receiving in this thread are helping to make my point.