From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Off topic response to an off topic message--> was:Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/06/05
Date: 1997-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Jun5140136@alexandria.organon.com> (raw)
In article <5n45ou$cio@squire.cen.brad.ac.uk> cgrussel@bradford.ac.uk (Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats) writes:
> What I'm trying to say here is that it could be argued (by me amongst
> others) that the relationships between objects and phenomena exist
> anyway. Mathematics is the ongoing creation of a extraordinarily rich and
> diverse language which enables us to express those relationships. A
> mathematician is creating a tool for scientists and engineers alike. It
> may require a mathematician to make use of that tool at times but, at
> it's very core, tool creation is what I believe to be the essence of maths.
Spoken like an engineer. I don't think many scientists would actually
say this sort of thing.
Go read G.H.Hardy's _A Mathematician's Apology_. Considering that (in
my experience anyway), the (vast) majority of mathematicians hold
basically the views expressed there, you will immediately see what a
"hornet's nest" you have just kicked.
> I don't see it as being different from any other language in that it
You're still kicking...
> Distant unknown planets do not crash into their sun because no one there
> has *discovered* the inverse square law. That relationship continues
> to exist in a form unexpressable to the local inhabitants.
So - how do you feel about the "Copenhagen interpretation" of QM?
Bohr's notion of "complimentarity"? Just curious...
/Jon
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1997-06-05 0:00 Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Off topic response to an off topic message--> was:Re: Software Engineering and Dreamers H. Blakely Williford
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1997-05-15 0:00 Any research putting c above ada? Jon S Anthony
1997-05-23 0:00 ` Software Engineering and Dreamers Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-23 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-26 0:00 ` Fritz W Feuerbacher
1997-05-26 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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1997-06-03 0:00 ` Off topic response to an off topic message--> was:Re: " H. Blakely Williford
1997-06-04 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-06-03 0:00 ` Spaceman Spiff
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Ceri Stagg
1997-06-12 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1997-07-21 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-06-10 0:00 ` Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
1997-06-04 0:00 ` Vibrating Bum-Faced Goats
1997-06-04 0:00 ` �Stephen!
1997-06-05 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Volker Hetzer
[not found] ` <01bc7a5b$9ccdd900$21320f9b@mindlin>
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1997-06-18 0:00 ` Philip Hindman
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Spam Hater
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Spaceman Spiff
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Stephan Wilms
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Spam Hater
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Mukesh Prasad
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Spaceman Spiff
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Steve Howard
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Spam Hater
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Spaceman Spiff
1997-06-23 0:00 ` root
1997-06-22 0:00 ` Alicia Carla Longstreet
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Stephan Wilms
1997-06-24 0:00 ` David Thornley
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