What do you need a mathematician for? Martinus Hortensius's ``speech on the dignity and utility of the mathematical sciences'' (Amsterdam 1634) (Q1777534)
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What do you need a mathematician for? Martinus Hortensius's ``speech on the dignity and utility of the mathematical sciences'' (Amsterdam 1634) (English)
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23 May 2005
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Hortensius (1605--1639) was a Dutch mathematican. Descartes called him ignorant, but many other contemporaries appreciated his learning. Remmert discusses Hortensius' inaugural lecture at the Atheneum Illustre in Amsterdam. In the lecture no argument supporting the delightfulness, dignity, utility and antiquity of mathematics seems to be missing.
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Martinus Hortensius
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inaugural lecture
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