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so what the fuck is mathematics really?

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*do* what?
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It's inherent to our interpretation of the world.
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it's an elaborate tautology/sophistry. HTH.
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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:51 PM
Author: hairraiser submissive party of the first part son of senegal

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: Supple Tattoo



(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: shimmering provocative theatre

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: titillating plum becky mad cow disease



(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: Vermilion splenetic 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: galvanic brindle locale death wish



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Date: December 14th, 2015 7:04 AM
Author: electric turquoise location



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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:59 PM
Author: silver motley school ladyboy

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: hairraiser submissive party of the first part son of senegal

*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: titillating plum becky mad cow disease

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: titillating plum becky mad cow disease



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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:59 PM
Author: Spruce legal warrant partner

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: Lavender vibrant national security agency lay

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: floppy olive indian lodge

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: Well-lubricated Passionate Tank

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: Slap-happy stage coffee pot

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: Chocolate Diverse Newt

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: Big-titted grizzly boistinker

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: hairraiser submissive party of the first part son of senegal

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: wine toilet seat cuckoldry

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: Vermilion splenetic 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: histrionic yellow halford set

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: Vermilion splenetic 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: histrionic yellow halford set

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: hairraiser submissive party of the first part son of senegal

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 federal stead sneaky criminal

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: Light deranged principal's office

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: rough-skinned razzle genital piercing

(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: charcoal vigorous indirect expression mediation

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: Cerise Talented Gas Station Mexican

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: hairraiser submissive party of the first part son of senegal



(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: hairraiser submissive party of the first part son of senegal



(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: histrionic yellow halford set

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: coiffed box office place of business

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: histrionic yellow halford set

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: coiffed box office place of business

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: histrionic yellow halford set

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: floppy olive indian lodge

gayporn faggotry

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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:22 AM
Author: lascivious bronze state

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: Aromatic glassy hell



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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:41 AM
Author: maroon ceo

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)