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Don’t Kill Math: Comments on Bret Victor’s Scientific Agenda – Evan Miller

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One of the most refreshing voices to emerge on the Web belongs to Bret Victor, who, since he left Apple in 2010, has been busy weaving together words, images, and code into compelling visions for computer-assisted creativity and scientific understanding. Among his works over the last two years you will find new “interfaces” for (really, conceptualizations of) algebra, trigonometry, dynamic systems, algorithm design, computer programming, circuit design, game design, animation, scientific publishing, mathematical exposition, and political propaganda. Each represents an impressive level of creativity and an admirable expenditure of effort. Each of these interfaces bears the mark of genius inasmuch as the average practitioner in the relevant field will think of his work differently than he thought of it prior to seeing Victor’s presentation. In particular, the practitioner will think: “I need that.” The unifying goal of Victor’s work, as he puts it in his Inventing on Principle talk (for

Don’t Kill Math: Comments on Bret Victor’s Scientific Agenda – Evan Miller Don’t Kill Math: Comments on Bret Victor’s Scientific Agenda By Evan Miller October 27, 2012 One of the most refreshing voices to emerge on the Web belongs to Bret Victor , who, since he left Apple in 2010, has been busy weaving together words, images, and code into compelling visions for computer-assisted creativity and scientific understanding. Among his works over the last two years you will find new “interfaces” for (really, conceptualizations of) algebra, trigonometry, dynamic systems, algorithm design, computer pr

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