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There is no ‘royal road’ to geometry (1982)

by Thursday24 on 10/19/2022, 8:00:35 AM with 2 comments
  • by kragen on 10/22/2022, 3:10:11 AM

    For those who prefer the original format: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD841.PDF

    Interesting surprise encountering Margaret Hamilton's name in there.

    My comment on pg's Succinctness is Power echoes some of the things Dijkstra says in here, though I wasn't talking about proof assistants, just a more informal notion of errors and problems: http://www.paulgraham.com/redund.html

  • by yewenjie on 10/22/2022, 5:05:25 AM

    I first came across this quote funnily by a book that is called The Royal Road to Algebraic Geometry.

    https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-19225-8