"Quadibloc" <jsavard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Apr 14, 11:01 am, The Starmaker <starma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Mathematics is the new Holy Bible! It's an invention. It was invented
> for the same
> reason the bible was invented, to explain the universe to others.
If you think mathematics is not really true, I advise you to stay away
from Las Vegas.
John Savard
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Abstract: Generations of even well-educated adults are under
the delusion that mathematics is difficult, and that mathematicians
must therefore be very clever. In this talk I will explode this myth
and show that mathematics is in fact easy, and moreover that
mathematics is precisely "that which is easy" for an appropriate
sense of 'easy'. We will take 'easy' to mean 'attainable by logical
thought processes'. As a corollary, or a converse, or a contra-
positive or something, we will discuss the im****tance of illogical
thought processes in non-mathematical life and the fact that life is
thus difficult. Hence or otherwise we will deduce that mathematics
is not life, nor can it nor should it be. - Eugenia Cheng
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