RE: Can God be seen in the maths?
July 9, 2017 at 3:52 pm
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2017 at 3:54 pm by Alex K.)
(July 9, 2017 at 1:37 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(July 8, 2017 at 6:09 pm)Fireball Wrote:
Zoom, got a skid mark in my hair. I've no clue what that means.
Most of it doesn't mean anything really, but merely gives you definitions, namely what ratios in a triangle are called Sine and Cosine. The only really nontrivial statement here is that e^ix=cos(x)+i sin(x), i.e. that the exponential function contains sine and cosine if you plug imaginary numbers in. That is always fascinating because at first glance, exponential growth and periodic oscillations seem to be completely separate things. Yet, if you take the mathematical function describing exponential growth and plug imaginary numbers in rather than ordinary real numbers, you get an oscillation.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition