Handing Galois a calculator: the math-history jab at 'why learn when AI computes'
tak3sh8 · x · 2026-09-13
Responding to "why study which quintics are solvable by radicals when we can compute roots to 200 decimals in a second," the author quips that giving Galois a calculator would have sent him back to the pub instead of developing group theory—a witty take on why computation alone doesn't replace deep understanding, echoing today's "why learn when AI exists" debates.
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