Some of you might have read C.P Snow’s famous essay on the two cultures, where he talked about the polite incomprehension he confronted when he asked his fellow aristocrats if they have heard of the second law of thermodynamics, which Snow contrasted with the universal acquaintance with Shakespeare. Setting aside the fact that no one I know reads either Shakespeare or the second law of thermodynamics, Snow was pointing to a real divide between the literary, artistic (and less so humanities) types and the mathematical and scientific types.
The Two Cultures: Newsletter 40
The Two Cultures: Newsletter 40
The Two Cultures: Newsletter 40
Some of you might have read C.P Snow’s famous essay on the two cultures, where he talked about the polite incomprehension he confronted when he asked his fellow aristocrats if they have heard of the second law of thermodynamics, which Snow contrasted with the universal acquaintance with Shakespeare. Setting aside the fact that no one I know reads either Shakespeare or the second law of thermodynamics, Snow was pointing to a real divide between the literary, artistic (and less so humanities) types and the mathematical and scientific types.