If someone had interests relevant to mathematics, and they only studied math from before 1900, they would be missing a great number of seminal works, and have very little knowledge of modern mathematics, even if there were tons of amazing and influential mathematicians before that point.
But your original claim was not “study the new stuff, it’s better”, you claim was that there were no advances before the new stuff.
That was not what I intended my original claim to be, and I think the spirit of lukeprog’s post was centered on the claim that one should “study the new stuff, it’s better.”
If I didn’t communicate that that was my intention clearly, I’m sorry, I hope we’re on the same page now.
But your original claim was not “study the new stuff, it’s better”, you claim was that there were no advances before the new stuff.
That was not what I intended my original claim to be, and I think the spirit of lukeprog’s post was centered on the claim that one should “study the new stuff, it’s better.”
If I didn’t communicate that that was my intention clearly, I’m sorry, I hope we’re on the same page now.