We built our world on "Big Math." Now we no longer understand it.

Original: We built our world on “Big Math.” Now we no longer understand it.

Big Think · 4h ago

Math has undeniably escaped the human mind and implanted itself in nearly every corner of the world. Over the past 75 years, as computers became commonplace and grew in power, what once amounted to mental arithmetic has become something else entirely. It’s not just math; it’s “Big Math,” too large for the human brain alone. Big Math’s offshoot algorithms, the step-by-step sets of instructions…

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We built our world on "Big Math." Now we no longer understand it.

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