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Wonderfest 2010: Is Mathematics More Art Than Science?
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Math: The Poetry of Logical Ideas
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It's hard not to take offense as a mathematician by Alejandro's take on the field. Basically, the more "pure"-oriented mathematicians, whose work is obviously arcane to him, are the only people he would consider to be mathematicians. All other math is "not real math," and is some kind of... for lack of a better word, application of a science. That point in and of itself seems to jump out as an obvious contradiction with his thesis.
I don't see how you can separate "whether math works" from "whether math works in the universe." It's kind of like saying that if you haven't found an application of an algorithm, then there is no application of that algorithm. Not only myopic, almost tautologically wrong. Very little respect earned for Alejandro today.
I don't see how you can separate "whether math works" from "whether math works in the universe." It's kind of like saying that if you haven't found an application of an algorithm, then there is no application of that algorithm. Not only myopic, almost tautologically wrong. Very little respect earned for Alejandro today.
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