Timeline for To what extent is it true that "number theory = mathematics"?
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| May 29, 2010 at 23:47 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | @DoubleJay, this project of reconciliation was well underway since the 1930s. Nicolas Bourbaki published an essay called "The Architecture of Mathematics" about this program. People often seem to think that the mathematicians of the 20th century continued the practices of the mathematicians of the 19th century, but this is simply false. The mathematicians of the 20th century knew just as much as we know now, and there is a danger of overstating things like the above. | |
| May 29, 2010 at 21:57 | comment | added | DoubleJay | Interconnection and increase in interdisciplinary understanding of fields is hardly limited to mathematics - all the branches of science are growing together in various interesting and complicated ways. There are still parts of psychology and biology that are almost entirely unrelated, but evolutionary psychology is an important and interesting field at their intersection, for instance. Much of the 19th and 20th centuries were spent fracturing fields into different, ever-smaller subfields. Now a great deal of reconciliation and understanding is happening. It's a long project, but a great one | |
| May 29, 2010 at 15:20 | history | answered | Angelo | CC BY-SA 2.5 |