#10 - The Primacy of Ideas, with David Deutsch
Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren
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The History of the Mathematicians
In century a, minus the thousand, it was essentially nil. And again, why were there no mathematicians? Well, because of the harsh life people led,. and because of the culture that thater made them not interested. Bu perhaps, perhaps there was a mathematician somewhere. How do we know, perhapsthere was one in the year minus ten thousand ten thousand b c. We don't have any a record of that, because they had no writing in that time. If there was one, and i don't see why there wouldn't have been one, it was because they managed to violate the norms of their culture and transcend the values and and preoccupations of their culture
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