There is no ‘royal road’ to geometry (1982)
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There is no ‘royal road’ to geometry (1982)
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Re: There is no ‘royal road’ to geometry (1982)
#2For those who prefer the original format: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD841.PDF
Interesting surprise encountering Margaret Hamilton's name in there.
My comment on pg's Succinctness is Power echoes some of the things Dijkstra says in here, though I wasn't talking about proof assistants, just a more informal notion of errors and problems: http://www.paulgraham.com/redund.html
Re: There is no ‘royal road’ to geometry (1982)
#3I first came across this quote funnily by a book that is called The Royal Road to Algebraic Geometry.