¶ MIT Sequence (1)
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MIT Sequence:
“It is interesting in considering the meaning of structure, to think of the redefinitions emerging annually at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in respect to fundamental phenomena. Every February the Institute exhibits in the main entry hall on Massachusetts Avenue a collection of self-definitions by the various academic departments. This is done so that the prospective students for the coming year (it is enrollment time at mid-years) may consider what the Institute has to offer. The Physics Department, the Chemistry Department, the Mathematics Department, and so on, all make statements about their particular concerns. They must say what they have to offer to the prospective students in a way that is both comprehensible and of high integrity of scientific meaning. Casual suggestions of the nature of the work will not suffice. Thus annually each department has found it necessary to re-examine its inexorably evolving disciplines and where appropriate to redefine its subject. Since each year both man’s art and science of communication have improved, I have found it interesting to note how, for instance, the Physics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology redefines itself as the years go on.”
¶ Citations
- Conceptuality of Fundamental Structures (Kepes), p.66, 1965
