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RE: Fringe Math
February 1, 2012 at 9:29 am
(February 1, 2012 at 1:28 am)Pendragon Wrote: I don't care. Can a computer AI (artificial Intelligence) find a structure it can make a decision with, your goldbach conjecture?

For this kind of programming, one needs constructionist tools. Infinity does not work on finite systems. You have to deal with reality sometimes, not hallucinations of god, and infinity.

So from this,
Does that mean math is only useful insofar that we can program with it?
From that infinity comment... Does that mean you're not a fan of real numbers, Hilbert spaces, Functional Analysis, Fourier analysis...
Draw lines plox.
So these philosophers were all like, "That Kant apply universally!" And then these mathematicians were all like, "Oh yes it Kan!"
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Fringe Math

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Fringe Math - by Categories+Sheaves - January 25, 2012 at 2:35 pm
RE: Fringe Math - by Tiberius - January 25, 2012 at 3:23 pm
RE: Fringe Math - by Faith No More - January 25, 2012 at 3:27 pm
RE: Fringe Math - by Categories+Sheaves - January 26, 2012 at 12:38 am
RE: Fringe Math - by Modular Moog V - January 28, 2012 at 12:58 am
RE: Fringe Math - by Categories+Sheaves - January 28, 2012 at 6:04 am
RE: Fringe Math - by Modular Moog V - January 28, 2012 at 10:35 pm
RE: Fringe Math - by Categories+Sheaves - January 29, 2012 at 7:02 am
RE: Fringe Math - by CliveStaples - January 30, 2012 at 10:25 am
RE: Fringe Math - by Modular Moog V - February 1, 2012 at 1:28 am
RE: Fringe Math - by CliveStaples - February 2, 2012 at 4:25 am
RE: Fringe Math - by phillip1882 - February 5, 2012 at 4:15 am
RE: Fringe Math - by CliveStaples - February 5, 2012 at 6:54 am
RE: Fringe Math - by Darth - January 31, 2012 at 2:37 pm
RE: Fringe Math - by Categories+Sheaves - February 1, 2012 at 9:29 am

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