[Edu-sig] "The study of fixed points has been at the foundation of algorithms"

[Arthur]

Scott David Daniels wrote:

>I suspect the other way into this is Category Theory, an area I am
>afraid I under-appreciate (though some say it is just because I don't
>"get it").
>
Read through this explanation of Category Theory.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/

While not being in a position to approach the concepts described in any 
serious way, I can - I think - at least appreciate that the ghost of 
Felix Klein hovers about.

The discussion I am having with myself here has to do with modernism and 
education. My concept of educational reform has much to do with the 
ghost of Felix Klein, as well...in  perceiving a need to have even 
elementary levels of instruction better informed by the kinds of 
modernist abstractions with which categories like Category Theory grapple.

Whereas I don't think that, in general, technology has any (necessarily) 
important role to play in such reform - I do think that specific tools - 
Python certainly among them (with or without my efforts to contribute) 
can, and probably will.

Art.