I’ve clearly stumbled into a memeplex to which I am favorably disposed. He quotes David Hestenes, whose textbook New Foundations for Classical Mechanics I just picked up a week ago in the name of filling in my math knowledge along lines more favorable to my intuition.
For the curious, this is the guy who is trying to popularize Geometric Algebra—you may have seen posts around the internet for Clifford Algebra as well, which is sort of the core insight. The lecture he gave when he won the Oersted Medal is here. I considered using this as an example in my other comment on pedagogical tools.
Bret Victor gave another talk along those lines: slides+vimeo, youtube.
(Wikipedia’s portrait of him is from this talk, in … costume.)
I’ve clearly stumbled into a memeplex to which I am favorably disposed. He quotes David Hestenes, whose textbook New Foundations for Classical Mechanics I just picked up a week ago in the name of filling in my math knowledge along lines more favorable to my intuition.
For the curious, this is the guy who is trying to popularize Geometric Algebra—you may have seen posts around the internet for Clifford Algebra as well, which is sort of the core insight. The lecture he gave when he won the Oersted Medal is here. I considered using this as an example in my other comment on pedagogical tools.