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From: fernando revilla on 29 Aug 2006 15:25 Jesse F. Hughes wrote: > *Fortunately* mathematics is not an experimental > science. With some nuances of meaning. Fernando.
From: Proginoskes on 29 Aug 2006 22:00 David R Tribble wrote: > [...] > Wild beliefs are one thing - we all have some of those to some degree > I suspect. It's the rabidly irrational adherence to provably wrong > beliefs that marks a crank as a crank. No it isn't. The thing that marks a crank as a crank is my belief that the NSA and the KGB are beaming microwaves into my apartment, which spell out "Come work for us, and we'll buy you a Hummer!" in Enochian Morse code, ever since I fixed that UFO with a bottle of Sobe and a roll of masking tape. And no, it's not a rabid irrational adherence, because I got my rabies shots last week, and also because it's a 2/3 adherence. --- A. C. Fenderson
From: Han de Bruijn on 30 Aug 2006 03:10 Lester Zick wrote: > Actually an interesting prespective. Certainly mathematical axioms if > not theorems are empirically established. Axioms are implicit definitions. Han de Bruijn
From: Han de Bruijn on 30 Aug 2006 03:15 Jesse F. Hughes wrote: > *Fortunately* mathematics is not an experimental science. Not true. Part of modern mathematics _is_ an experimental science. In very much the same way as physics is: theory as well as experiment. Or would you like to say that structural (numerical) analysis is not a form of mathematics? And how about computing a large prime number? Welcome to the 21th century! Han de Bruijn
From: schoenfeld.one on 30 Aug 2006 03:20
Han de Bruijn wrote: > Jesse F. Hughes wrote: > > > *Fortunately* mathematics is not an experimental science. > > Not true. Part of modern mathematics _is_ an experimental science. > In very much the same way as physics is: theory as well as experiment. > Or would you like to say that structural (numerical) analysis is not > a form of mathematics? And how about computing a large prime number? > > Welcome to the 21th century! Wouldn't that be computer science? > Han de Bruijn |