From the Intellectual Mathematics Manifesto by Viktor Blåsjö
Kant said: “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one understanding without guidance from another. … Sapere Aude! Dare to know! Have courage to use your own understanding! Thus is the motto of Enlightenment.”
This is also the motto of Intellectual Mathematics. Stop thinking that a mathematical argument is a bureaucratic form submitted for approval to the Gods of Pedantry. A mathematical argument is written for you. Stop worrying about what “they” want you to do. Have the courage to think for yourself.
Have the courage to think for yourself.
He’s written a free calculus textbook available from his website.
I remember once reading an article in Wired magazine in which the researchers profiled in the story were running post hoc statistical analyses and one exclaimed, excitedly: “we have significance!”
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