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“If I pay close attention to the discussions taking place around me, and observe the thought patterns of the speakers, I can tell which of them definitely haven’t read or paid attention to Euclid.”

Mihai Olteanumihaiolteanu.me ↗

The first pick for programmers is a geometry text from around 300 BC. That beats another year of framework tutorials. Euclid teaches you to start from definitions and build only what follows from them. Most design reviews would go faster if people did the same.