Ancient Nerds

It is so cool learning about how similar ancient scholars are to us. We come up with interesting problems that we can try solving with code, like the knapsack problem. Nerds in the ancient past also came up with interesting problems that they could solve - with mathematics. Like the bisect an angle with only ruler and compass problem. Then later the unsolvable 'trisect' an angle with only ruler and compass.

I can completely see how solving these problems would be every bit as exciting as wrapping up a function / feature / program and executing it. It was exciting to see how the bisection problem is solved, just as exciting as seeing knapsack solutions or other software solutions or algorithms.

And ALL of us have benefitted from the work of our nerdy ancestors.