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Re: The Beauty of Mathematics
« Reply #1 on: Feb 13th, 2012, 10:31pm » |
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God, what utter stupidity.
Also, I'm pretty sure the bible is in favor of stoning numerologists.
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Re: The Beauty of Mathematics
« Reply #3 on: Feb 14th, 2012, 8:53am » |
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Mathematics is not a matter of faith.
Furthermore, assigning numerical values to letters and then summing the values for the letters in a word of phrase, and then equating that to a percentage as if it holds any meaning, is neither a sign of an understanding of mathematics nor a sign of faith.
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Re: The Beauty of Mathematics
« Reply #4 on: Feb 14th, 2012, 10:19am » |
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on Feb 14th, 2012, 8:53am, towr wrote:| Mathematics is not a matter of faith. |
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You mean ... the existence of  and the validity of Peano's axioms is not a matter of faith?
Have you ever seen in its entirety? Have you ever heard of a proof for these axioms?
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Re: The Beauty of Mathematics
« Reply #5 on: Feb 14th, 2012, 12:00pm » |
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You don't need to believe exist or that Peano's axioms are valid (whatever that might mean) to reason about them. It's irrelevant to doing mathematics. 1+1=2 follows from Peano's axioms regardless of whether you believe in them. It's merely a matter of following the rules of the game. But if you don't observe those rules, you're not playing the same game.
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« Reply #6 on: Feb 17th, 2012, 5:16am » |
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But if, say, you accept a bet because you computed that the odds are in your favor, you believe that mathematics are more than just a game with arbitrary rules you choose to follow or not. Don't you?
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Re: The Beauty of Mathematics
« Reply #7 on: Feb 17th, 2012, 8:27am » |
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I believe there is a certain correspondence to some mathematical models and what they model, yes. But that's based on empirical evidence, not faith.
But, for example, I wouldn't believe that in reality you can cut a sphere in 5 pieces and then reassemble them into two spheres of the same size as the original.
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Re: The Beauty of Mathematics
« Reply #8 on: Feb 18th, 2012, 12:11pm » |
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I see what you mean. And actually I agree with you.
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