Please read this piece and blog on three quotes from the article that made you stop and that surprised you in some way. one thing is that "in the trivium of the medieval university. Logistic was practical and utilitarian, a study for children and slaves; logic was a liberal art, a study for free men." eh.... yah. It seems like the theoretical/intellectual enjoyment are solely for the free men. There is a distinction between the classes. Well, I think this is kind of true nowadays too. Some people learn math or science just for a living. while some people learn it for the enjoyment. but it comes to the individual thinking and habits though, mostly, I think , for today's population. since most of the people are not starving. Also one of the mathematicians "wrote much on number mysticism, a sort of theology of numbers. Numbers were identified with the various gods. He considered the odd numbers to be male and the even ones to be female." This is similar to the num...
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