A quote by the founding father of modern electrical engineering, and the formulator of the current version of Maxwell's equations, Oliver Heaviside:
(Read the entire article. It's hilarious, and surprising that Nature decided to publish it.)
"Euclid is the worst. It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties, .... I hold the view that it is essentially an experimental science, like any other, and should be taught observationally, descriptively and experimentally."
- Oliver Heaviside, "The teaching of mathematics", Nature 62, pp 548-549, 1900. [1]
(Read the entire article. It's hilarious, and surprising that Nature decided to publish it.)
"Euclid is the worst. It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties, .... I hold the view that it is essentially an experimental science, like any other, and should be taught observationally, descriptively and experimentally." - Oliver Heaviside, "The teaching of mathematics", Nature 62, pp 548-549, 1900. [1]
[1] https://ia600708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22...