The discussion revolves around the accessibility and difficulty of Stephen Hawking's book "God Created the Integers," which compiles significant works in mathematics and philosophy. Participants explore whether the book is too challenging for readers, particularly those with a basic understanding of multivariable calculus.
Participants appear to have differing views on the accessibility of the book and the meaning of specific terminology, indicating that the discussion remains unresolved with multiple perspectives presented.
The discussion includes assumptions about the audience's background knowledge and the nature of the works cited in Hawking's book, which may not be universally understood.
What does that word mean in English?Gjmdp said:This Stephen Hawking book gathers the most important books along human history. In theory, this book is just divulgative, but, Gäuss, Riemann, Gödel... books included in Hawking's are not meant to be divulgative. So, any of you who read the book(/books if separeted) think it's maybe too hard. PD: I've got some basics on Multivariable Calculus, not much far away from that.
Well, we could guess about it forever. Maybe he'll answer my question and we won't have to.smodak said:I may be completely off-track here, but from the context it seems like he means the Hawking book is a popularization but the bibliography lists book that are not popularized for the masses.
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