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Decades have passed since C. P. Snow gave his famous Rede Lecture at Cambridge in 1959. In the lecture, Lord Snow said1:
I believe the intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups. . . . Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension—sometimes (particularly among the young) hostility and dislike, but most of all lack of understanding.
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C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures and a Second Look (New York: Cambridge, 1964), p. 3.
Ibid., p. 62.
Ibid., p. 63.
Ibid., p. 9.
Jacques Barzun, A Stroll with William James (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), p. 203.
Ibid., p. 206.
Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, pp. 182, 350.
Snow, Two Cultures, p. 14.
Ibid., p. 13.
Stewart, The Problems of Mathematics.
Augustus De Morgan, “Assorted Paradoxes” in The World of Mathematics, ed. James R. Newman (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956), p. 2378.
Hedley Bull, “Tradition and Science in the Study of International Politics,” in Contending Approaches to International Politics, Klaus Knorr & James N. Rosenau, eds. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969), pp. 26–30.
Morton A. Kaplan, “The New Great Debates,” in Contending Approaches to International Politics, Knorr and Rosenau, eds., p. 55.
Ibid., p. 61.
Allen L. Hammond, “Mathematics, Our Invisible Culture,” in Mathematics Today, ed. Lynn Steen (New York: Springer Verlag, 1980), p. 16.
Ibid., p. 16.
John Polkinghorne, One World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton, 1986), p. 46.
Collingwood, The Principles of Art, p. 331.
Ibid., p. 312.
Ibid.
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King, J.P. (1992). The Two Cultures. In: The Art of Mathematics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6339-0_8
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