Revisiting Vannevar Bush: hand mechanical math to machines, keep intuition for humans
CatAstro_Piyush · x · 2026-11-07
A poster shares excerpts from Vannevar Bush's classic text arguing that scientists' judgment, not mechanical manipulation, is the essence of mathematics — and that machines should take over routine computation, a vision that maps strikingly onto today's AI-assisted work.
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