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so what the fuck is mathematics really?
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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:51 PM Author: Flushed Ceo Filthpig 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=2Elisa#29374237) |
Date: December 13th, 2015 11:52 PM Author: thriller menage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374243) |
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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:58 PM Author: floppy corner son of senegal It's a system of white oppression. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374277) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:37 AM Author: Adventurous tank center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29445130) |
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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:58 PM Author: up-to-no-good blue water buffalo regret like a symphony. it's very erotic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374282) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:07 AM Author: Heady brunch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374371) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 7:04 AM Author: lascivious greedy nowag stag film (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29375159) |
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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:59 PM Author: bronze university It's like numbers and shit. You do stuff with them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374289) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:12 AM Author: Flushed Ceo Filthpig *do* what? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374423) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:38 AM Author: Adventurous tank center You can add them. And multiply sometimes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29445133) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:38 AM Author: Adventurous tank center (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29445132) |
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Date: December 13th, 2015 11:59 PM Author: fuchsia parlor ladyboy It's inherent to our interpretation of the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374290) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:06 AM Author: Submissive church building Arabic propaganda (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374356) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:13 AM Author: Green irate coldplay fan den it's an elaborate tautology/sophistry. HTH. |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:14 AM Author: Dun new version its FRAUD (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374435) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:14 AM Author: curious abusive hall are you asking what is language? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374437) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:15 AM Author: henna irradiated gunner 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=2Elisa#29374441) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:16 AM Author: Geriatric roast beef cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374446) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:21 AM Author: Flushed Ceo Filthpig can any math guys comment on whether this guy's statement is retarded? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374468) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:19 AM Author: Violet concupiscible lay sandwich 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=2Elisa#29374457) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:21 AM Author: up-to-no-good blue water buffalo regret how drunk are you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374464) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:25 AM Author: Azure Party Of The First Part 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=2Elisa#29374480) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:31 AM Author: up-to-no-good blue water buffalo regret 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=2Elisa#29374508) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:36 AM Author: Azure Party Of The First Part omfg, ur the guy that wanted socrates put to death, arent you? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374536) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:23 AM Author: Flushed Ceo Filthpig 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=2Elisa#29374472) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:26 AM Author: talented theatre striped hyena 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=2Elisa#29374486) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:21 AM Author: Confused Ebony Senate Juggernaut 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: erotic chocolate range (philo shithead) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29374466) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 12:35 AM Author: ruby set 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=2Elisa#29374532) |
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Date: December 14th, 2015 7:03 AM Author: excitant jap forum 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: Flushed Ceo Filthpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29392863) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:27 AM Author: Flushed Ceo Filthpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29444906) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 1:34 AM Author: Azure Party Of The First Part 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: citrine fortuitous meteor meetinghouse 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: Azure Party Of The First Part 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: citrine fortuitous meteor meetinghouse 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: Azure Party Of The First Part 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 1:35 AM Author: Green irate coldplay fan den gayporn faggotry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29444937) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:22 AM Author: Rose Field Hissy Fit 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=2Elisa#29445077) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:24 AM Author: Provocative giraffe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29445088) |
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Date: December 24th, 2015 2:41 AM Author: Walnut shitlib pozpig its hard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#29445141) |
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Date: May 26th, 2025 12:48 AM Author: erotic chocolate range lollercausting HARD ITT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3069857&forum_id=2Elisa#48961674) |
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Date: May 26th, 2025 12:49 AM Author: Rebellious Abode 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=2Elisa#48961676) |