(January 2, 2013 at 5:56 pm)jonb Wrote:(January 2, 2013 at 5:45 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: well how far would maths theory have got without the irrational or even the imaginary? and how far would science have got without the maths ?
What would be the point of imagination without hard facts to measure it against?
isn't there a place for both? and could we even have got to where we are without both. I wonder which scientists would progress the world further those with no facts or those with no imagination. I think it would be a draw.
as I pointed out above mathematics would have ground to a halt by now if it wasn't for imaginary numbers.
