{"id":789,"date":"2012-11-27T07:25:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T07:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/blog\/?p=789"},"modified":"2012-11-27T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T07:26:24","slug":"mathematics-core-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparktoro.com\/blog\/mathematics-core-values\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mathematics of Core Values"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the holiday weekend, Geraldine took me to see Lincoln. I’d watched a clip aired during the Daily Show last week that had me excited to see the film, and Fred Wilson’s post<\/a> sealed the deal.<\/p>\n

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That clip contained the following quote:<\/p>\n

Euclid’s first common notion is this:\u00a0 ‘Things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other.’\u00a0\u00a0 That’s a rule of mathematical reasoning.\u00a0 It’s true because it works.\u00a0 Has done and always will do.\u00a0 In his book, Euclid says this is\u00a0self-evident.\u00a0 You see, there it is.\u00a0 Even in that 2,000 year old book of mechanical law,\u00a0it is a self-evident truth that things which are equal to the same thing are equal to each other.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a short version<\/a> from YouTube:<\/em><\/p>\n