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Jiang credits Islamic Golden Age mathematics, optics, surgery, hospitals, and universities as foundations that fed the European Renaissance.
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Mathematics
In Jiang's simplified Plato, poetry, art, and theater are bad because they are imitations of imitations, while mathematics is good because pure thought approaches the Form of the Good.
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In Jiang's simplified Plato, poetry, art, and theater are bad because they are imitations of imitations, while mathematics is good because pure thought approaches the Form of the Good.
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He says historians, mathematicians, and programmers must collaborate because computers require numbers, equations, and models rather than ideas alone.
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"let's look at dante's divine comedy so dante is in uh hell and there in limbo he's meeting the most influential the greatest philosophers..."
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"So most of the math you're studying in school actually originated during the Islamic Golden Age. This name is al -Hazan. He invented physics,..."
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"It's still there guys Okay, this is the oldest university in the world. What's also amazing is it was founded by a woman who..."
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"Now. Plato emanates other perfections. What he calls the form of the ideal, okay? So these are concepts like justice and beauty and reason...."
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"...the form of the good, okay? Right? So poetry is evil. Mathematics is good. Okay? Now, why is mathematics good? Okay. Because mathematics is..."
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"...only through a process of pure thought, pure philosophy. Okay? Pure mathematics, that you can actually start to understand this world, all right? That's..."
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"But also going back to throughout history and seeing how history can be revamped or changed so that it's more accurate. Okay? Does that..."
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"...participants, okay? Then there are the rules or the constraints. In mathematics, we would call this the boundary conditions, okay? The limits to the..."
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"...any harm to anyone. Right? So if you just do the mathematics and you recognize that allowing homosexuality is a positive, and that positive..."
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"...is impossible for you to understand. It's impossible to reason using mathematics, because mathematics doesn't really apply to the world. So the only thing..."
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"...correct. Also remember that people who do computer engineering and do mathematics, they're at their best in their 20s and 30s. By the time..."
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"...Right? Right. For Plato, it's like, spend your entire life learning mathematics, specifically geometry, because he thinks that geometry is really the language of..."
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