Oftentimes you simply can’t understand what some theorem or experiment was for without at least knowing about its historical context. Take something as basic as calculus: if you’ve never heard the slightest thing about classical mechanics, what possible meaning could a derivative, integral, or differential equation have to you?
Oftentimes you simply can’t understand what some theorem or experiment was for without at least knowing about its historical context. Take something as basic as calculus: if you’ve never heard the slightest thing about classical mechanics, what possible meaning could a derivative, integral, or differential equation have to you?