Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, November 9, 2014
ANCIENT MATHEMATICS EMASCULATED
When mankind's ancient, experiential mathematics' "intuitive content" was "neatly separated from its logical-formal form," while a new trending form --"axiomatics"--alone, became known as "mathematics," which was no longer concerned with its ancient intuitive, original, and much "older interpretation" form whence it sprang, writes Albert Einstein, then, an epic paradigm shift began in mankind.
P.233, IDEAS AND OPINIONS by Albert Einstein (1954, 1982)
The foregoing evokes this scripture:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Timothy+3%3A5-7&version=KJV