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so what the fuck is mathematics really?
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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:51 PM Author: impertinent stead 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: Spectacular meetinghouse (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: Bateful rehab 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: Judgmental National (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: Soggy stain brunch 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: Thriller business firm (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: Titillating lay (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: Obsidian multi-colored quadroon parlor 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: impertinent stead *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: Judgmental National 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: Judgmental National (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: Racy pit 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 12:13 AM Author: Appetizing menage it's an elaborate tautology/sophistry. HTH. |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:14 AM Author: provocative organic girlfriend locus 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: Stimulating misanthropic corner bbw 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: Hairraiser primrose station boltzmann 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: Hot High-end Abode 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: impertinent stead 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: odious narrow-minded casino 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: Soggy stain brunch 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: Confused Cruise Ship Twinkling Uncleanness 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: Soggy stain brunch 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: Confused Cruise Ship Twinkling Uncleanness 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: impertinent stead 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: poppy point marketing idea 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 codepig 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: Excitant locale (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: mildly autistic skinny woman 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: shimmering cracking dilemma 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: impertinent stead (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: impertinent stead (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: Confused Cruise Ship Twinkling Uncleanness 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: Henna potus 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: Confused Cruise Ship Twinkling Uncleanness 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: Henna potus 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: Confused Cruise Ship Twinkling Uncleanness 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: misunderstood charismatic personal credit line 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: Soul-stirring Pale Hell (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: Brindle jew 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: Excitant locale 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: self-absorbed principal's office 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) |