> You insist - it seems to me (not directly in the quote above, but generally) - > on making this a Fuller thing, and as such, something visionary, a bit > rebelous, > and certainly outside/beyond the of thinking of mainstream math educators. >
Yeah, that's sort of my schtick. I think it's important. More than a bit rebelous even. > I have been able to demonstrate to you that a mathematician as mainstream as > Felix Klein was pitching this exact point about spatial geometry- not > abstractly in > the laboratory but in seminars he conducted for pre-college math educators - > at > least 30 years before Fuller had a word to say on the subject. I'm happy for you to stick to Klein as your avatar. I have no problem with that. I'm sure we'll have other big names in common. I've been writing about Penrose quite a bit recently, in my blog. Just because I'm into Bucky doesn't mean I live in a vacuum, even named as I am. > Different world views, you and I, I guess getting in the way. Klein is much > more > "from the mountain top" then Fuller, in my world - especially when we are > talking > about geometric ideas. I'm a philosophy major, entering the door of American Literature, and feeling impressed. I'm not really a mathematician wannabee. In the old trivium/quadrivium framework, that'd be a step down in rank. I have my career to think about. > And since we are talking about working within the academy, I think it > important we > have our facts straight, in terms of attribution of ideas. I'm very accomplished as an academic, cite my sources religiously. In my case, Fuller is often a source. In your case, others, like Klein. There's nothing that needs fixing here. And again, I'm sure we can find overlap. Britney Spears? Dr. Evil? > And from a pure *getting things accomplished* point of view, why present ideas > in a way that makes them seem less mainstream, more tied to the insights of a > Unique Genius, then they actually are, when one looks at the facts. > I'm a Fuller Schooler, that's my gig, including at last year's OSCON. But I'm not trying to recruit everyone I see, saying join me, join me. I'm more looking to form alliances, already having a full crew of professionals aboard, arrrrgh. Eye patch. Parrot. > Its just good math - in Kleins's presentation, at least. > > Art > Again, we can be ships passing in the night on this. My venture into the Bermuda Triangle of synergetic geometry is in the "don't try this @ home" category i.e. it's not for everyone. More like an Xtreme sport [tm]. Fun though. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
