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Geometry To Algebra

cool style of the talk / writing transcripts/etc.

everyone is doing maths wrong humans have great spatial skills animals can do short sequences

Language & Deliberation -- why do humans reason arguments for an argumentative theory

good notation is very valuable for thinking

role of programming in the formulation of ideas -- sussman small set of primitives, functional , recursive, sligtly oo

discovery natural numbers -> rational numbers mesopotamia -- base 60 calculations

geometric algebra notation

wedge product = generalization of cross product imaginary numbers are not real -- gall / lasenby / doran

plane based geometric algebra

david hestenes

Kunal