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Abstract mathematics

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As students show evidence of this breakthrough, they should be introduced to abstract mathematics and to mathematical treatments of the physical and biological sciences.
In a lament that might be-heard today, a teacher charged in a 1958 letter to the same publication that "the traditional curriculum is meaningless, and by heading for abstract mathematics, the modernists are moving further away from reality.
That is a world that we can't visualize, but we can understand it using very abstract mathematics, ultimately the mathematics of spontaneously broken, gauge-field theories.
 
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