I’m curious, since I never studied maths past A level.
Is there a difference to the way it’s taught now compared to whenever von Neumann was studying.
What I mean is, the way I was taught maths and science in general was with a feeling of “look we basically know everything just learn this and you’ll be fine”.
Rather than that there are MASSIVE open questions and things we don’t understand at all. Please learn maths and physics and fix them, will you?
I’m basically curious how a fairly young person gets into their head a thought like “Hey, why don’t I just revolutionise a few things? That seems totally reasonable for me to do that.”
Is there a difference to the way it’s taught now compared to whenever von Neumann was studying.
What I mean is, the way I was taught maths and science in general was with a feeling of “look we basically know everything just learn this and you’ll be fine”.
Rather than that there are MASSIVE open questions and things we don’t understand at all. Please learn maths and physics and fix them, will you?
I’m basically curious how a fairly young person gets into their head a thought like “Hey, why don’t I just revolutionise a few things? That seems totally reasonable for me to do that.”