Discovery fiction - Revision history

Issa Rice at 07:04, 23 June 2022

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	==History==		==History==

	The term was coined by [[Michael Nielsen]].<ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/interfaces-1/ September 2017.</ref><ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics January 2019</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1132063254849527808 May 2019.</ref> (there are probably alternative terms too that might have come earlier)		The term was coined by [[Michael Nielsen]], and he may have independently come up with the idea.<ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/interfaces-1/ September 2017.</ref><ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics January 2019</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1132063254849527808 May 2019.</ref> (there are probably alternative terms too that might have come earlier)

			But I think [[Tim Gowers]] also independently came up with the idea:

			<blockquote>However, there is another way of justifying the introduction of a new concept into mathematics. Instead of looking at the ''actual'' history of that concept, one can look at a ''fictitious'' history. If you can tell a plausible story about why a concept ''might have been'' invented, then that is sufficient to make it seem reasonable. It solves the mystery of how anyone could have thought of the concept, and it also shows that it was pretty well inevitable that the concept would have been introduced sooner or later.<ref>https://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/normal-subgroups-and-quotient-groups/</ref></blockquote>

	==Examples==		==Examples==

Issa Rice at 07:03, 23 June 2022

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	'''Discovery fiction''' is an exposition style in which the content is motivated by a fictitious ~~history~~ of how someone might have discovered the ideas being explained. The idea is mainly used in mathematics.		'''Discovery fiction''' is an exposition style in which the content is motivated by a fictitious story of how someone might have discovered the ideas being explained. The idea is mainly used in mathematics.

	==History==		==History==

Issa Rice at 07:01, 23 June 2022

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	==History==		==History==

	The term was coined by [[Michael Nielsen]].<ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/interfaces-1/ September 2017.</ref><ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics January 2019</ref> (there are probably alternative terms too that might have come earlier)		The term was coined by [[Michael Nielsen]].<ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/interfaces-1/ September 2017.</ref><ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics January 2019</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/1132063254849527808 May 2019.</ref> (there are probably alternative terms too that might have come earlier)

	==Examples==		==Examples==

Issa Rice at 06:54, 23 June 2022

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	'''Discovery fiction''' is an exposition style in which the content is motivated by a fictitious history of how someone might have discovered the ideas being explained. The idea is mainly used in mathematics.~~<ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/interfaces-1/ September 2017.</ref><ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics January 2019</ref>~~		'''Discovery fiction''' is an exposition style in which the content is motivated by a fictitious history of how someone might have discovered the ideas being explained. The idea is mainly used in mathematics.

	==History==		==History==

	The term was coined by [[Michael Nielsen]]. (there are probably alternative terms too that might have come earlier)		The term was coined by [[Michael Nielsen]].<ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/interfaces-1/ September 2017.</ref><ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics January 2019</ref> (there are probably alternative terms too that might have come earlier)

	==Examples==		==Examples==

Issa Rice at 06:54, 23 June 2022

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	'''Discovery fiction''' is an exposition style in which the content is motivated by a fictitious history of how someone might have discovered the ideas being explained. The idea is mainly used in mathematics.		'''Discovery fiction''' is an exposition style in which the content is motivated by a fictitious history of how someone might have discovered the ideas being explained. The idea is mainly used in mathematics.<ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/interfaces-1/ September 2017.</ref><ref>https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics January 2019</ref>

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	* https://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/normal-subgroups-and-quotient-groups/		* https://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/normal-subgroups-and-quotient-groups/
			* https://michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-actually-works/
	* https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rTC8MgPuYfXEw3WLp/discovery-fiction-for-the-pythagorean-theorem (see also [https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/19397/how-to-teach-the-pythagorean-theorem-in-a-satisfying-way-to-high-school-students here])		* https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rTC8MgPuYfXEw3WLp/discovery-fiction-for-the-pythagorean-theorem (see also [https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/19397/how-to-teach-the-pythagorean-theorem-in-a-satisfying-way-to-high-school-students here])
	* From Ronald Solomon's ''Abstract Algebra'': "The intention of this text is to emphasize the organic and historical development of the abstract theory of groups, rings, and fields from the substrate of high school mathematics. In Part I the 'history' is fictitious. It is only with imaginative hindsight that we can attribute the concept of a group of motions to Euclid. In the later parts, however, the history is genuine, although the notation and terminology is updated." (p. ix)		* From Ronald Solomon's ''Abstract Algebra'': "The intention of this text is to emphasize the organic and historical development of the abstract theory of groups, rings, and fields from the substrate of high school mathematics. In Part I the 'history' is fictitious. It is only with imaginative hindsight that we can attribute the concept of a group of motions to Euclid. In the later parts, however, the history is genuine, although the notation and terminology is updated." (p. ix)

			==References==

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'''Discovery fiction''' is an exposition style in which the content is motivated by a fictitious history of how someone might have discovered the ideas being explained. The idea is mainly used in mathematics.

==History==

The term was coined by [[Michael Nielsen]]. (there are probably alternative terms too that might have come earlier)

==Examples==

* https://gowers.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/normal-subgroups-and-quotient-groups/
* https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rTC8MgPuYfXEw3WLp/discovery-fiction-for-the-pythagorean-theorem (see also [https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/questions/19397/how-to-teach-the-pythagorean-theorem-in-a-satisfying-way-to-high-school-students here])
* From Ronald Solomon's ''Abstract Algebra'': "The intention of this text is to emphasize the organic and historical development of the abstract theory of groups, rings, and fields from the substrate of high school mathematics. In Part I the 'history' is fictitious. It is only with imaginative hindsight that we can attribute the concept of a group of motions to Euclid. In the later parts, however, the history is genuine, although the notation and terminology is updated." (p. ix)