Waning In uence of History: Why?

In the past, history played an important role in education: students learned history of science, history of mathematics, etc. In the last decades, the in uence of history has waned. In this paper, we provide a natural explanation for this waning. 1 Waning In uence of History: Formulation of the Problem History used to be important in all aspects of human endeavor. In the past, history played an important role in human enterprize: students studying science learned a lot of facts from history of science, students studying modern languages learned historic languages like Greek and Latin, and everyone studies history itself. Studying history was considered important for making decisions. Lately, the in uence of history has been waning. In the last decades, however, the influence of history has been waning. Much less efforts and much less time is allocated to studying history, and it is no longer a universally ac-cepted fact that knowing history is extremely important for decision making; see, e.g., [1, 2]. Why? In this paper, we try to explain why the influence of history is waning