John Carlos Baez on Nostr: - yes, that makes sense. What's interesting, if true, is that human civilization also ...

- yes, that makes sense. What's interesting, if true, is that human civilization also found it easier to make quicker progress in math than science. I think the reasons are related: math is closer to a self-contained formal game (though it's not purely that, because that doesn't explain which kinds of math are more worth bothering with).