> I've never used history to solve business problems.
As Knuth was trying to point out, history should be more than tables and time lines.
It should provide details of how important advances where made and how solutions to big problems where found.
And the reason being, since those historical details aren't being recorded, it's more than likely you are in fact solving business problems today using the same techniques discovered in the past, you just don't know it.
As Knuth was trying to point out, history should be more than tables and time lines.
It should provide details of how important advances where made and how solutions to big problems where found.
And the reason being, since those historical details aren't being recorded, it's more than likely you are in fact solving business problems today using the same techniques discovered in the past, you just don't know it.