{"id":1463,"date":"2010-05-03T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2010-05-03T07:00:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T07:00:54","slug":"links-for-2010-05-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=1463","title":{"rendered":"links for 2010-05-03"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/lovelace-and-babbage-vs-the-organist-pt-5\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sydneypadua%2FyBZX+%282D+Goggles%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">2D Goggles: Lovelace and Babbage vs The Organist, pt 5<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">If you&#039;re not already a fan, this might encourage you in that direction. Among the serendipitous gems in the accompanying text, I quote this passage: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lovelace and Dodgson both loved Euclid (Lovelace: &#8220;It is a very pretty little Theorem, so neat and tidy: the various parts dovetail so nicely!&#8221;) and the emerging field of symbolic logic, and both stumbled through the Nameless Wood of calculus. Lovelace wrote to De Morgan &#8220;these Functional Equations are complete Will-o-the-wisps to me&#8221;, and Dodgson, after four years (!) of studying Mathematics at Oxford and despite coming at the top of his class, writes &#8220;talked over the Calculus of Variations with Price today; I see no prospect of understanding the subject at all.&#8221; You may need to recalibrate your judgements of people&#8217;s math by the way: Carroll was already lecturing in mathematics at Oxford when he described the end of Differential Calculus as &#8220;new to me&#8221; as late as the 1850s!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/oook\/Lovelace\">Lovelace<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/oook\/Babbage\">Babbage<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2D Goggles: Lovelace and Babbage vs The Organist, pt 5 If you&#039;re not already a fan, this might encourage you in that direction. Among the serendipitous gems in the accompanying text, I quote this passage: Lovelace and Dodgson both loved Euclid (Lovelace: &#8220;It is a very pretty little Theorem, so neat and tidy: the various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}