The extension to today's post is "Does Mathematics Exist? and is related to our previous dialogue "Does Dark Matter Exist?".
I have several Mathematician's in my family, and I have occasionally engaged them on the question of "Does Mathematics Exist?". Yes, it is a thought provoking question.
I leave you with a story about MIT Prof Warren Ambrose (https://grokipedia.com/page/warren_ambrose) with whom I sometimes talked when he came to the MIT Swimming Pool as Swim Practice was ending. What amazed me as a physics student was that for Prof. Ambrose, as he recounted his Mathematics, his mathematics was pure abstraction. I realized how differently our minds worked when it came to Mathematics. I am very grateful to Feynman for his diagrams. ( https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-feynman-diagrams-revolutionized-physics-20190514/ )
Thanks for your comment here - how wonderful to have had poolside discussions about the metaphysics of mathematics. 🙂
Over the years, I have come to realise that it's not just physics and mathematics that have a different metaphysical stance on these things - try talking to a geologist about scientific methodology, it can be an adventure! 🙂
The extension to today's post is "Does Mathematics Exist? and is related to our previous dialogue "Does Dark Matter Exist?".
I have several Mathematician's in my family, and I have occasionally engaged them on the question of "Does Mathematics Exist?". Yes, it is a thought provoking question.
I leave you with a story about MIT Prof Warren Ambrose (https://grokipedia.com/page/warren_ambrose) with whom I sometimes talked when he came to the MIT Swimming Pool as Swim Practice was ending. What amazed me as a physics student was that for Prof. Ambrose, as he recounted his Mathematics, his mathematics was pure abstraction. I realized how differently our minds worked when it came to Mathematics. I am very grateful to Feynman for his diagrams. ( https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-feynman-diagrams-revolutionized-physics-20190514/ )
Dear Bob,
Thanks for your comment here - how wonderful to have had poolside discussions about the metaphysics of mathematics. 🙂
Over the years, I have come to realise that it's not just physics and mathematics that have a different metaphysical stance on these things - try talking to a geologist about scientific methodology, it can be an adventure! 🙂
Stay wonderful!
Chris.