[Avodah] David Cohen : algorithm for matrix multiplication (Avodah Digest, Vol 30, Issue 91)

[Ezra Chwat]

David Cohen: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:22:53 +0300:
"Yishuvo shel olam aside, I also see inherent value in learning math: it is
truth.  We learn Torah because it is revealed truth, and some of us study
science because it is another reflection of the ways of Hashem, who is
truth"

In Rav Qapah's understanding of Rambam's Hashkafah, precise critical scientific study is to be considered obligatory Limudey Kodesh. 
See MaharY Qapeh z"l, Tchumim 2 (1981) pp.242-251; English translation in Crossroads- halacha and the Modern World (1987), pp.109-116; on above- Z. Langermann Aleph I (2001) pp. 338.
This opinion may not be popular, but it cannot be ignored. 

Ezra Chwat
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