Monday, 28 October 2019

Michele Finelli: Software engineering during the Italian Renaissance

quote [ Why did this take so long? They lacked the abstractions needed to move forward. Babylonians did not know how to deal with negative numbers. Dal Ferro and company did not know how to deal with imaginary or complex numbers. ]

Just a little food for thought from some conference talk.

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[by Paracetamol@9:10pmGMT]

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