Quintin always believed he was a genius who was going to renovate Maths. His fathers´ dream was that he studied aeronautic engineering. That’s why, his resolution to study Pure Maths disappointed his father. He asked him why did he do it and Quentin answered that applied sciences was for weak people; Pure Maths were the aristocracy of Science
In the last
post we talked about the reciprocal misgivings between Science and Arts. In
this post Arts are not even involved. As a chemist, I have to admit that the difficulty
of an university degree is directly
proportional to the contents of Math in it.
Although we are not only told about difficulty here, but the plebeian aspect
in the fact of looking for an application in everything you learn. The romantic vision of Knowledge for its own
sake is not actually exclusive of teoric or pure Mathematics because degrees as
classical philology for example, share
this vision.
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