Science And Math Was: Python's Lisp heritage

[Fernando Pereira]

On 4/22/02 7:20 PM, in article
qX0x8.82827$T%5.64632 at atlpnn01.usenetserver.com, "Steve Holden"
<sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Maybe Cambridge had it right in
> including both mathematics and science under "Natural Philosophy".
Pretty appropriate if "natural philosophy" is allowed to include psychology,
as it did in the Enlightenment (see Roy Porter's "The Creation of the Modern
World", esp. chapter 7). Since, as everyone knows without realizing,
mathematics is just a very elaborate kind of perceptual technology <0.5
wink>. 

-- F