Also, his claim that "there would be no present computers and software without the theoretical mathematical-philosophy investigation of Whitehead" is actual on specified a level of generality on which it would be equally appropriate to insert Leibniz or Frege alternatively of Whitehead, so it is just another unnecessary ornament.
It is not appropriate for a mathematician to charge with an effective thesis that present the conviction of the matriculation in mathematics "is adequate for a postgraduate to look into Rhind's old Egyptian papyrus, which was created about 1650 BC". Papirus Rhinda is in fact a set of mathematical recipes, which can be applied completely mechanically, so something far below even this "moderate margin" of evidence in the Polish school. The mathematician doesn't request to know precisely what this papyrus contains, but if he doesn't, he shouldn't make up [2].
I think that the Vienna Institute of Human Sciences, which was chaired by Father Tischner, is modelled on the Institute for Advanced survey in Princeton, "in which the scholars of this measure, like Einstein or Oppenheimer, were active," can only be accepted for religion behind Polish Wikipedia, due to the fact that there is no proof. Father Heller, on the another hand, is surely not the recipient of the Tempelton Prize. Founder's name was Templeton. Humanists may have forgiven, but I require more from mathematicians.
And even with Rachmaninow and his 2nd Piano Concerto C-minor, Drachal did not do well ("These 3 parts, together, in this order, make a masterpiece"), due to the fact that this performance was first performed as a two-part concert. Rachmaninov played only part 2 and 3rd at the time, so I guess he thought it wasn't all pointless.
But it's all just small things.
For there is besides a political theme, and in specified cases even the mathematicians yet get what they like.
A fewer years ago, the Spanish BBVA Foundation conducted investigation among 16,000 people, among others from the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Italy, France, Spain and the USA on the widely understood technological culture, especially mathematical culture. Italians, Spaniards and Poles proved to be the weakest skills. Half of the compatriots did not know that the first people did not live in the dinosaur age, little than a third, that antibiotics did not fight viruses, and a 4th did not know any student of the planet famous.An example from the study. The doctor says that a couple’s kid will have a hereditary illness with a probability of 0.25. And he asks which of the following sentences is true:
A) If the first 3 children are healthy, the 4th will be sick. B) If the first kid is ill, the next 3 will be healthy. (C) The hazard of illness is identical in each child. D) If the couple have only 3 children, then no of them will get sick.
The correct C consequence was given by over 60% of Americans, but only 1 3rd of Poles who were in the last place.
These another two-thirds of Poles respond to election programs, they make political choices that consequence in the destiny of the remaining one-third. For years, electoral analyses have shown that the electorate of populist and far right parties is characterized by a weaker education than the others.
Indeed, Poland, in a survey of the BBVA Foundation, fell badly. However, suggesting that Poles fell out in disgrace compared to another nations is an abuse. In fact, they all fell out badly. Yes, in the investigation report, it's at the end of the chart. [3], on which Poland is clearly weighing down, while the Netherlands and Denmark are soaring up, but this is simply a incorrect impression due to the fact that the axis of the rows has been reduced to the scope of results obtained. A mathematician should see that without a problem.The survey of the level of cognition active choosing the truth/false answer to twenty-two simple questions: whether non-genetically modified tomatoes besides have genes, whether warm air floats up, whether atoms are smaller than electrons etc. (BBVA, pp. 22-23). Contrary to what Robert Drachal made up, the mathematical culture afraid only this 1 additional issue cited by him, not including the survey of the level of knowledge.
Of these twenty-two questions, Poles responded correctly to 12.4 and the best Danes to 15.6 (BBVA, p. 25). Just 3 more questions. It's not a shocking distance. In addition, almost all nation answered at least 1 of the questions peculiarly stupidly. For example, 2 thirds of Danes besides did not know that antibiotics do not fight viruses (BBVA, p. 23). Almost everyone had a strong point, too. Only 7 percent of Poles (one in fourteen) believed that it was the Sun that revolved around the Earth, while that was how all 5th Dutchman, French and British (BBVA, p. 24).
True, "a 4th did not know any student of planet fame" (exactly 26%), but the same was actual in the United Kingdom (26.8%), France (24.5%), the Czech Republic (23.4%) or the US (27.4%). Not to mention Spain, where almost half of the respondents (45.9%) did not know any world-renowned student (BBVA, p. 33) [4].
Naturally I do not say that discipline in Poland is good. I don't think I gotta convince you of that. But choosing data under the pre-established thesis - that stupid Poles make peculiarly stupid political choices - this is not good discipline either. A pamfelt, at most.
First thing off the bank. In an article about the contemporary Polish school, it would be appropriate to mention for erstwhile the results of the last PISA survey from 2018, without comparison more cross-cutting and methodologically advanced than the survey of the BBVA Foundation. Only that these results do not support pamfelt black vision, due to the fact that Polish students were one more time among the best in the planet [5].
Instead, Robert Drachal preferred to hotel to a small scam.
Well, the BBVA Foundation conducted its investigation not "a fewer years ago" - as he wrote, not - as it might seem - just before the fresh elections, only almost 10 years ago, in 2011. There were besides elections in Poland at the time, but since they were won by a organization another than the planet itself-who [6], no-one then drew the results of the survey of the BBVA Foundation to prove that two-thirds of the fools had cooked the sad destiny of the enlightened one-third with electoral cards [7].
Apparently, in those happy times, the cognition of antibiotics and the probability account was not considered essential to equip the liable electorate [7a].
[1] Robert Drachal, Aiming at stupidity, "Gazeta Wyborcza", 26-27 June 2021, magazine "Free Saturday", p. 19. The full article only takes 2 pages, so I'm not going to call them here monotonously.
[2] For example, there is simply a demonstration of how to divide 100 loaves of bread between 10 men, 3 of whom (a sailor, a foreman and a guard) are to be given a double allowance. Or how to calculate the volume of a cylindrical granary (from the diameter of the base we subtract the ninth part, the consequence is raised squared and multiplied by the tallness of the cylinder). The multiplication itself is simply a series of doubling and addition operations. To multiply 18 by 8 first multiply 18 by 1 (=18) then double the erstwhile result, or multiply 18 by 2 (=36), then double the erstwhile consequence again, or multiply 18 by 4 (=72). And since the sum of the existing multipliers is 7 alternatively of 8, we add 18 times 1 to all the results and yet get 18 plus 36 plus 72 plus 18 = 144. See Gay Robins, Charles Shute, The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, British Museum Publications, London 1987. About the loaf on page 41, about the granary on page 44, about the multiplication on page 16 (example for convenience changed to shorter).
Nb. If you want to impress yourself without needing to impress the exact date ("...which was created about 1650 BC"), you should check it out. In fact, Rhinda papyrus was created - as evidenced by the date recorded in it - a 100 years later. "The Infinite Date ante quem is given by the date noted in the text, the year 33 of the Hyksos ruler Apepi (ca. 1550 BCE)" (Annette Imhausen, Mathematics in Ancient Egypt. A Contextual History, Princeton University Press 2016, p. 66).
[3] The BBVA Foundation global survey on technological Culture. knowing of Science. p. 36. The study is available Here.. I proceed to quote as BBVA with a page number.
[4] It seems that Spain was the 1 who had the function of the boy to beat. This may be somewhat amazing since the survey was financed by the Spanish bank (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria). I do not know what the long-standing Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, exposed himself to the Bilbao bank, but someway it happened that the survey was carried out just erstwhile he was losing power and the ruling socialists lost to the cretes elections in favour of the centre-right People's Party. So it may have been primarily about getting the effect of "Spain in ruin", and investigation in another countries was only meant to service as an appropriate background (it was carried out by TNS Opinion dealing mainly with marketplace research).
Nb. if you accept as a pro-scientific criterion the attitudes promoted in the BBVA study, the same investigation is not. Its results were not confirmed by another independent scientists or even published in a technological paper (BBVA, p. 33). It is besides hard to reconstruct his methodology, due to the fact that the remarks on this subject are highly inexpensive (BBVA, p. 37). Thus, those who view the survey as more than a non-compulsive curiosity specified as a public opinion survey show that they are not accustomed to same - examination of the information they give them.
[5] 79 countries participated in the study. In measuring the knowing of the text Poland took tenth place, in mathematics besides tenth, and in measuring reasoning in natural sciences - eleventh. We were mostly Asian, but we were better than Germans, French or British each time. We took 4th place in the additional measurement of financial skills in which 20 countries participated. Detailed reports are available Here..
[6] The results of parliamentary elections in Poland in 2011, i.e. in the year in which the BBVA Foundation was surveyed, says at least Wikipedia.
[7] It was not tried at the time in "Gazeta Wyborcza". See Piotr Zagórski, Poland (not)scientific knowledge, electoral.pl, August 21, 2012.
[7a] After the release of this note, respective people asked me why there was nothing about dinosaurs. Well, the rumors of Ebenezer Rojt's alleged cruelty are greatly exaggerated.
