The study and teaching of the science of geometry are in the public interest, but whosoever practices the damnable art of mathematical divination, shall be put to the stake.Corpus Juris Civilis, Codex Justinianus,
Book IX, XVIII, 2, 3 (AD circa 650)Taken from Jan Gullberg's wonderful Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Concerning Mathematicians and Soothsayers and Kindred Evildoers
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3 comments:
you're aliveeeeeee XD
what is mathematical divination? O_o
The post is a snarky comment about Economists and the financial quants who practice financial prediction, or basically "mathematical divination".
The actual law by Emperor Justinian was probably about fortune telling with numbers, for example like the "I Ching"....
Whoa, weird, you made a post. =)
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