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Friday, July 26, 2024

The Boone Dogma

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:31 am

From Walpurgisnacht 2005

This year's April – Mathematics Awareness Month –
theme is "Mathematics and the Cosmos."

For my own views on this theme as it applies
to education, see Wag the Dogma.

For some other views, see this year's
Mathematics Awareness Month site.

One of the authors at that site,
which is mostly propaganda
for the religion of Scientism,
elsewhere quotes
an ignorant pedagogue:

 

"'The discovery of non-Euclidean geometries
contradicted the "absolute truth" view
of the Platonists.'"
 
Sarah J. Greenwald,
   Associate Professor,
   Department of Mathematics
   Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

 

Damned nonsense.  See Math16.com.

 

This post was suggested by a mention of Boone
in an Atlantic article yesterday, "OopsGPT."

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