…it does seem odd that everything in the first two years is very Eurocentric. It’s only in the third year are students exposed to anything by Asian authors (and there’s some cheating there in that the Dao de jing is listed twice—no, wait, three times!) and those are all under the category of elective works. I’m frankly unconvinced of the value of reading historical works of science or mathematics, especially…
《道德经》- 老子 《千高原》- Gilles Deleuze + Felix Guattari
Dao De Jing - Lao Tzu A Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze + Felix Guattari
……前两年的所有内容都极度以欧洲为中心,这确实显得很奇怪。直到第三年学生才会接触到亚洲作者的任何作品(而且这里还有点水分,因为《道德经》被列了两次——不对,等等,是三次!),并且那些全都被归在选修书目类别下。坦白说,我不太相信阅读科学或数学史经典著作的价值,尤其是……
…it does seem odd that everything in the first two years is very Eurocentric. It’s only in the third year are students exposed to anything by Asian authors (and there’s some cheating there in that the Dao de jing is listed twice—no, wait, three times!) and those are all under the category of elective works. I’m frankly unconvinced of the value of reading historical works of science or mathematics, especially…