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so what the fuck is mathematics really?
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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:51 PM Author: mewling soul-stirring shrine 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) |
Date: December 13th, 2015 11:52 PM Author: Sooty affirmative action new version (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: Vigorous church 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: nubile irradiated home (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: aromatic prole brethren 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: Vibrant Balding Personal Credit Line Organic Girlfriend (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: mischievous tripping space (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: useless turquoise house 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: mewling soul-stirring shrine *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: nubile irradiated home 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: nubile irradiated home (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: Violet Hateful Antidepressant Drug Locus 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: Odious chartreuse gas station 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: Brindle fiercely-loyal potus brunch it's an elaborate tautology/sophistry. HTH. |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:14 AM Author: jet 180 french chef 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: talented foreskin ratface 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: Deep sandwich native 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: puce diverse internal respiration 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: mewling soul-stirring shrine 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: Frisky arousing cruise ship yarmulke 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: aromatic prole brethren 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: Pungent Den 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: aromatic prole brethren 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: Pungent Den 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: mewling soul-stirring shrine 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: Flushed Stage 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: Boyish amethyst love of her life To be fair,
Threads like this are when I really wish Bach was still around |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:21 AM Author: self-centered famous landscape painting (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: Excitant Piazza Juggernaut 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: Bronze dashing associate school 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. |
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Date: December 16th, 2015 3:39 PM Author: mewling soul-stirring shrine (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: mewling soul-stirring shrine (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: Pungent Den 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.
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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:45 AM Author: Dark gunner i'm a moron math is a numerical expression of truth math can completely describe anything and everything |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:46 AM Author: Pungent Den math can describe, but its not the thing it is describing.
that nova documentary was trying to say that reality is mathematics itself. |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:48 AM Author: Dark gunner it is. i said describe, but you could say explain, represent, present, etc. |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:50 AM Author: Pungent Den 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. |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:22 AM Author: sexy vivacious theater stage 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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