Tyler Austin Harper in The Atlantic yesterday —
"If we have any hope of resuscitating fields like English and history,
we must rescue the humanities from the utilitarian appraisals that
both their champions and their critics subject them to. We need to
recognize that the conservatives are right, albeit not in the way
they think: The humanities are useless in many senses of the term.
But that doesn’t mean they’re without value."
"English and history" … and pure mathematics.
Perhaps AI can help . . .
Microsoft's Copilot AI on Monday, Dec. 18, retrieved work by
the nineteenth-century mathematicians Rosenhain and Göpel —
