How mathematics built the modern world - Works in Progress
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Submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science@mander.xyz
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-mathematics-built-the-modern-world
sj_zero 1 week ago
It's incredibly lucky that mathematics can describe things we find in nature. Imagine if we couldn't use an abstract tool like that to predict things ahead of time? Everything would have to be done by feel, and we'd still be stuck in antiquity.