A Conversation with David Valerio
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
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Einstein's Geometry and Experience From 1921
Einstein has a book called Geometry and Experience from 1921. He's going against Kant which I also want to do sort of but he's saying this question the reason I came across it is there's a famous quote from it that says and Enigma presents itself in all ages. How can it be that mathematics being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality is human reason then without experience merely by taking thought able to fathom the properties of real things, Einstein asks.
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