Open AccessPoincaré: el método, lo inconsciente y el caso Dreyfus
Author(s) -
Miquel Escudero
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
modelling in science education and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1988-3145
DOI - 10.4995/msel.2013.1987
Subject(s) - unconscious mind , serendipity , id, ego and super ego , painting , psychoanalysis , psychology , philosophy , art history , art , epistemology
The last man who had an universal knowledge of mathematics and its applications died just a hundred years ago. He always said that mathematics should be encouraged for themselves, and its first aim was to enjoy them in the same way that painting and music allow us to. He did never pretend to be only a specialist, his way of working was to choose the ‘interesting’ facts. On the other hand, maybe we could find serendipity. It is worthwhile to know how to implement the unconscious machine, the unconscious ego beside the conscious ego. In the famous a aire Dreyfus, Poincare was asked for advise and he wrote a dossier about the graphological system that had been erroneously used.
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