>>13955335Zuse is another unknown person in peoples general knowledge about the history of modern digital computers. Not a Nazi but a German engineer during that time that had his incredible work often destroyed in bombings so he gets ignored.
He influenced the first widely used high level programming languages such as algol because he made the first one called plankalkul, made and sold the first functional turing-complete computer, sold his patents to IBM in 1946, and so on.
But I doubt your hypothesis is the main reason.
>>13952878this one is far more of a dominant reason in my mind but yours holds some weight too, it's not a simplistic phenomena.
I remember all we were taught in math in terms of history was Archimedes and Pythagoras. And that was early on, as we got higher it was the most dry, soulless, pure calculation and my teacher got angry at me when I asked about how trigonometry developed and so on.
On a completely separate point I also think it's just a wrong thing overall and an error to examine ancient greek/roman people with reference to the west today and somehow apply their habits on ourselves when they thought completely differently and are a separate superorganism. It still has an important cultural significance in the west obviously and influenced many ideas all the way to the vikings and germanic tribes even.
One of the main errors the CPC/CCP thinks of Mao's policies for example is how negatively he made their ancient culture seem, which I agree was an error, the west saw themselves too much in a gone superorganism most closely connected to them, the Chinese saw too little in the one they were most connected to. The modern west isn't from a linear progression of the greeks and romans just like modern china isn't a linear progression from ancient china but both still matter and build context.
