[Edu-sig] cross-posting from blog

[Arthur]

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> Thought for the Day
> 
> Computers ended up giving us a whole new cast of bread and butter
> metaphysicians, people making their living in realms of abstraction with
> concrete consequences in code. When philosophers cranked up their
> propositional calculus and modal logic in the golden age of Principia
> Mathematica, they maybe expected such lines of work would be their legacy.
> But academic philosophy seems relatively stuck with old tools right now.
> Computer science is doing more of the heavy lifting. And what would
> mathematics be today, without Mathematica? Computers have changed the
> dialog
> among the disciplines.


We're going to get in trouble...

The little road show I did at a few college math departments with PyGeo
surprised me, in the sense that they seemed more impressed with it they I
would have expected them to be, and probably should have been.  Let's say
"it" being the ability to explore mathematical ideas in code.

Which is one the reasons that Mathemtaica aside, I think there is work to be
done.  Goody.

Art