On Apr 15, 1:33=A0pm, mimus <tinmimu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:01:18 -0700, The Starmaker wrote:
> > On Apr 12, 7:20=A0am, "Suresh M.Sc" <suresh.ra...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >> Mathematicsisthe king of arts and the queen of all sciences.
> >> Isn't?WhatisMathematics actually? Give me a best definition for
> >> Mathematics. Thanks.
>
> > 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.
>
> Mathematics is the description of form, and both form and its
description
> at bottom and simplest are binary (try to go simpler), best and most
> simply described in the form (heh) of two laws, best and most simply
> symbolized as
>
> ()()=3D()
>
> and
>
> (())=3D
>
> and renderable in English as
>
> "Crossing from one binary state to the other more than once still leaves
> you in the second state"
>
> and
>
> "Crossing from one binary state to the other and back again leaves you
in
> the original state."
>
> Note that these are _not_ arbitrary "axioms"; they are verifiable
> observations, in a plethora of concrete examples; they are natural laws.
>
> The arithmetic and algebra arising from the above two laws comprise the
F2=
> group of laws; the F3 would be trinary form, and so on.
>
> Application of the F2 group to the truth-values of propositions gives us
> the L group of laws, propositional logic.
>
> Application of the F2 and L groups to sets gives us the S group of laws,
> elementary set theory.
>
> And application of all the foregoing to numbers gives us the N groups of
> laws, number theory.
>
> After which comes the G group (geometry) and P group (physics, at base
> interpretable as applied geometry, adding both intension, as opposed to
> extension, and dynamism) of laws.
>
> Etc.
>
> See _Laws of Form_, Russell 'n' Whitehead's _Principia Mathematica_, the
> Metamath Project and so on (the group-names, with the exception IIRC of
th=
e "L
> group", used are my own, although the ascending hierarchy of formal
> complexity is that of ordinary formal mathematics-- which has issued in
> more than one competing theory, unfortunately).
>
> --
>
> "The math is easy," said Chaos.
>
> < _Thief of Time_
Well, the word "mathematics" come simply from the Greek verb
"mathein", "to know". Mathematics is simply the purest form of
knowledge we have, in the clearest form of communication we know.
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