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Article #632766Re: Colors of Infinity
From: daveg David B. Greene
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 00:00
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brett.leach@visionet.com.au.pepperpot says... >ha...@cadvision.com says... >> wo...@berlin.snafu.de (Wolfgang Schwanke) wrote: >> >> >Mathematics is a made up set of rules. Made up by humans. >> >It's not intrinsic to the universe. >That is so wrong. That which underlies mathematics IS the intrinsics of >the universe. Mathematics was created by man as a way to describe those >intrinsics. > >When a lion takes down a gazelle, it may not think in terms of m, ms-1 and >ms-2 but it is still subject to the laws of nature which have very precise >mathematical definitions. Well, at the risk of catching hell from the hoi palloi of the great unwashed masses who don't understand, let me point out that random processes also have very precise mathematical definitions. Maybe our mathematical models are no more than studies in organized chaos. Dave Greene
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