This is not "bottom up". Bottom up is not ultra-reductionism. Bottom up is not learning writing & literature from the sequential arrangement of ink and space(≈ taleb). Though it is technically correct to say so. Below is something very similar.
"At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate. At a practical level, the opposite is true: " - Terrence Tao [1]
"At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of strings of digits which terminate. At a practical level, the opposite is true: " - Terrence Tao [1]
[1] http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/254a-notes-0-a-revi...