| (Skimmed it quickly) >> We conclude with recommendations that professional societies in mathematics should sponsor an (international) code of ethics, institutional mission statements for mathematicians and syllabuses for incorporation into mathematics degrees. Gotta put that subjectivity in mathematics. Mathematics, as the purest of sciences, cannot have ethics in it. Ethics are a human invention: the laws of the universe have no ethics. They simple "are". "Put ethics in math" is a veiled way of saying "we will regulate what math is acceptable for you to do and what not". And since this is an oath this implies you WILL BE PUNISHED FOR BREAKING IT. No more truth, just subjectivity. The year is 2045: you need to obtain a permission from the European Union Mathematics Ethics Comittee before you are allowed to execute a vector cross product on your CPU in your own code. Also: medical doctors take the oats. But then the pharma drug rep comes along... |