Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Han de Bruijn wrote:
>> Mathematics is two things: the ART of creating ideas, and the SCIENCE
of
>> applying those ideas to real world material.
>
>Ah, forgot one thing: the DISCIPLINE to _reject_ ideas if it turns out
>that these ideas cannot appliccable. The discipline is the hardest part,
>for groups as well as for individuals.
>
>So Mathematics is three things: the ART of creating ideas, the SCIENCE
>of applying these ideas to real world material, and the DISCIPLINE to
>reject ideas for which it's is evident that they cannot be matched to
>any real world material.
....I guess it's a good thing for current physics that that third part
hasn't
actually been part of mathematics for a couple millenia now, isn't it?
Dave "in other words, WHAT in the world does the real world have to do
with
mathematics? Use both sides of the paper; show your work" DeLaney
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