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(Message started by: rloginunix on Sep 4^th, 2016, 10:08am)

Title: Cheating or ... Not?
Post by rloginunix on Sep 4^th, 2016, 10:08am

Cheating or ... Not?

A thought experiment:

imagine that Euclid and Euler, Newton and Leibniz, Lagrange and Laplace, Cauchy and Weierstrass, Gauss and Fermat, Legendre and Maxwell, can not name them all but you get the idea - the movers and the shakers of the past who did not live to see the advent of an electronic computer, all suddenly come to life these days and are shown GeoGebra and Cinderella, MATLAB and Maple, Mathematica, OpenSCAD and Blender, etc.

They are told that numerically (exponential, Fresnel, Sine, Cosine, elliptic, etc) integrals can be computed and solutions to linear algebraic, differential and integral equations can be found, Fourier Transforms can be performed and missing Mersenne primes found, points in geometric constructions can be traced in real time, dynamic programming exists ...

Question.

Will these great minds condemn all of this, disapprovingly shaking their heads in disappointment ... or will they embrace it wholeheartedly and put it to some inventive use that we are not seeing?

What are your thoughts?