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so what the fuck is mathematics really?

NOVA did an episode recently on this. Like, what the fuck *i...
Burgundy laser beams
  12/13/15
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citrine set
  12/13/15
It's a system of white oppression.
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  12/13/15
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  12/24/15
like a symphony. it's very erotic.
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  12/13/15
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  12/14/15
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  12/14/15
It's like numbers and shit. You do stuff with them.
bistre jet-lagged sound barrier stead
  12/13/15
*do* what?
Burgundy laser beams
  12/14/15
You can add them. And multiply sometimes
Primrose voyeur
  12/24/15
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Primrose voyeur
  12/24/15
It's inherent to our interpretation of the world.
jade idea he suggested
  12/13/15
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  12/14/15
it's an elaborate tautology/sophistry. HTH.
Mauve Kitchen Filthpig
  12/14/15
its FRAUD
Ruddy round eye
  12/14/15
are you asking what is language?
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  12/14/15
Mathematical theory is really boring when you think about it...
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galvanic ungodly locale
  12/14/15
can any math guys comment on whether this guy's statement is...
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  12/14/15
It's a representation of most of reality in the physical wor...
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  12/14/15
how drunk are you?
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  12/14/15
stfu u piece of shit. im tired being asked how how i am when...
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  12/14/15
there isn't a single multiline poast ITT that closer to 'ref...
Provocative balding hall
  12/14/15
omfg, ur the guy that wanted socrates put to death, arent yo...
Iridescent new version
  12/14/15
NOVA said some of this too. It's also been largely ineffecti...
Burgundy laser beams
  12/14/15
mathematics is a way to model reality. this is what people f...
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  12/14/15
To be fair, Threads like this are when I really wish Bach...
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  12/14/15
(philo shithead)
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  12/14/15
it's an extension of human intuitions about space, quantity,...
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  12/14/15
At the very least, the physical world can be mapped to incre...
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  12/16/15
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  12/24/15
my opinion on this is that math is a reflection of some real...
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  12/24/15
i'm a moron math is a numerical expression of truth math c...
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  12/24/15
math can describe, but its not the thing it is describing. ...
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  12/24/15
it is. i said describe, but you could say explain, represen...
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  12/24/15
it is not. and like a poster above me said, how would math d...
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language to describe inherently quantifiable phenomena, e.g....
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  12/24/15
its hard
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  12/24/15
lollercausting HARD ITT
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  05/26/25
describes the structure of thinking directly and the physica...
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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:51 PM
Author: Burgundy laser beams

NOVA did an episode recently on this. Like, what the fuck *is* it? is it just a system used to explain the physical world, or is the physical world itself mathematics? like something inherent?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374237)



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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:52 PM
Author: citrine set



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374243)



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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:58 PM
Author: flirting shimmering patrolman telephone

It's a system of white oppression.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374277)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:37 AM
Author: Primrose voyeur



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29445130)



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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:58 PM
Author: Provocative balding hall

like a symphony. it's very erotic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374282)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:07 AM
Author: Self-centered Church Building Keepsake Machete



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374371)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 7:04 AM
Author: federal cordovan legal warrant trust fund



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29375159)



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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:59 PM
Author: bistre jet-lagged sound barrier stead

It's like numbers and shit. You do stuff with them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374289)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:12 AM
Author: Burgundy laser beams

*do* what?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374423)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:38 AM
Author: Primrose voyeur

You can add them. And multiply sometimes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29445133)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:38 AM
Author: Primrose voyeur



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29445132)



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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:59 PM
Author: jade idea he suggested

It's inherent to our interpretation of the world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374290)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:06 AM
Author: Ebony Glittery Cumskin Garrison

Arabic propaganda

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374356)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:13 AM
Author: Mauve Kitchen Filthpig

it's an elaborate tautology/sophistry.

HTH.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374433)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:14 AM
Author: Ruddy round eye

its FRAUD

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374435)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:14 AM
Author: Electric nibblets

are you asking what is language?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374437)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:15 AM
Author: Maroon Regret Plaza

Mathematical theory is really boring when you think about it. You are just manipulating #s for the sake of it. The theory almost always precedes the application problem. So it's not like you are coming up with shit to actually solve some real world problem. You are just like "hey, lol, wouldn't it be fun to see if 5,000 prime #s add up to a certain amoutn, and then what if we divided them, and what if we did X to them, and lol hey there's al ittle pattern. I think I'll call that a law!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374441)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:16 AM
Author: galvanic ungodly locale

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374446)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:21 AM
Author: Burgundy laser beams

can any math guys comment on whether this guy's statement is retarded?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374468)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:19 AM
Author: Cerebral drunken dopamine

It's a representation of most of reality in the physical world. I can't say all, because mathematics alone has not or maybe cannot explain the essence on many things - why certain emotions give subjective feelings, or why certain colors look the way they do on a personal level. Yes you could argue color that yellow is a reflection of a specific wavelength, but still doesn't get to why yellow looks like yellow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374457)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:21 AM
Author: Provocative balding hall

how drunk are you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374464)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:25 AM
Author: Iridescent new version

stfu u piece of shit. im tired being asked how how i am when i say stuff like the above. you fucking unreflective loser, what do you think he means? dumb ass.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374480)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:31 AM
Author: Provocative balding hall

there isn't a single multiline poast ITT that closer to 'reflective' than 'pretentious drivel'

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374508)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:36 AM
Author: Iridescent new version

omfg, ur the guy that wanted socrates put to death, arent you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374536)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:23 AM
Author: Burgundy laser beams

NOVA said some of this too. It's also been largely ineffective at explaining/predicting weather patterns or the stock market.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374472)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:26 AM
Author: Grizzly appetizing dysfunction

mathematics is a way to model reality. this is what people forget. its not exact, it never was. F=ma is something mathtards obsess about, but these sorts of 'laws' just break down on a subatomic level. also there are a bunch of useless parts of math. all these autistic patterns with primes has no practical use other than cryptography which is in itself a man-made phenomenon. lol @ terrance tao spending his life trying to prove useless prime number theorems.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374486)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:21 AM
Author: Doobsian metal genital piercing location

To be fair,

Threads like this are when I really wish Bach was still around

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374463)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:21 AM
Author: Exhilarant Glassy Goyim

(philo shithead)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374466)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:35 AM
Author: House-broken brunch son of senegal

it's an extension of human intuitions about space, quantity, and functional and symbolic relationships

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29374532)



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Date: December 14th, 2015 7:03 AM
Author: Carmine area selfie

At the very least, the physical world can be mapped to incredible precision using math, tautological as the math may be.

Maybe reality is just as tautological, but that's beyond the scope of math.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29375158)



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Date: December 16th, 2015 3:39 PM
Author: Burgundy laser beams



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29392863)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:27 AM
Author: Burgundy laser beams



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29444906)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:34 AM
Author: Iridescent new version

my opinion on this is that math is a reflection of some reality, its not reality itself. anybody that believes reality IS math is a fucking moron.

my other hypothesis is that the mind is NOT the same as a complete description of the chemical processes of the brain and the nervous system.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29444934)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:45 AM
Author: Beta heaven milk

i'm a moron

math is a numerical expression of truth

math can completely describe anything and everything

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29444970)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:46 AM
Author: Iridescent new version

math can describe, but its not the thing it is describing.

that nova documentary was trying to say that reality is mathematics itself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29444973)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:48 AM
Author: Beta heaven milk

it is.

i said describe, but you could say explain, represent, present, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29444978)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:50 AM
Author: Iridescent new version

it is not. and like a poster above me said, how would math describe the quality of seeing yellow. or pain, or joy.

and math is not the thing-in-itself, if you believe that you are so fucking lost.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29444984)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:35 AM
Author: Mauve Kitchen Filthpig

gayporn faggotry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29444937)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:22 AM
Author: Aphrodisiac Address

language to describe inherently quantifiable phenomena, e.g., the physical world, the interrelationships of numbers, quantifiable aspects of human behavior

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29445077)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:24 AM
Author: umber orchestra pit



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29445088)



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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:41 AM
Author: carnelian startled lodge

its hard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#29445141)



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Date: May 26th, 2025 12:48 AM
Author: nyuug (Gangnam WGWAG Playboy)

lollercausting HARD ITT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#48961674)



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Date: May 26th, 2025 12:49 AM
Author: metaphysics is fallow

describes the structure of thinking directly and the physical world indirectly, since the physical world is mediated by thinking.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2)#48961676)