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From: Charlie-Boo on 11 May 2010 11:09 On May 11, 10:54 am, Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensi...(a)uta.fi> wrote: > Charlie-Boo <shymath...(a)gmail.com> writes: > > You see, mathematicians never actually DO anything - they only talk > > about how they would do it if they did. > > A mathematician I know once went to a bar and had a beer. No he didn't. He only talked about the optimal way to have a beer. (Poor thing never came up with a reason to choose one method over the other and eventually died of dehydration.) > -- > Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensi...(a)uta.fi) > > "Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, darüber muss man schweigen" > - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
From: Charlie-Boo on 11 May 2010 11:15 On May 11, 10:57 am, Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensi...(a)uta.fi> wrote: > Charlie-Boo <shymath...(a)gmail.com> writes: > > Then we compared solutions to the ant puzzle and I never got a chance > > to ask him for an example of a math thing that is not a model of the > > physical world. > > To pick a logical example, the constructible universe is hardly a model > of the physical world. http://www.holderconstruction.com/Pages/default.aspx > > I told them that math is physics without the units and they all > > laughed. > > Very droll. Ha-ha. What's droll mean? > -- > Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensi...(a)uta.fi) > > "Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, darüber muss man schweigen" > - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
From: Daryl McCullough on 11 May 2010 11:23 Aatu Koskensilta says... > >Charlie-Boo <shymathguy(a)gmail.com> writes: > >> You see, mathematicians never actually DO anything - they only talk >> about how they would do it if they did. > >A mathematician I know once went to a bar and had a beer. That sounds like the start of a joke: A mathematician walks into a bar and orders a beer... -- Daryl McCullough Ithaca, NY
From: Alan Smaill on 11 May 2010 11:28 Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi> writes: > Charlie-Boo <shymathguy(a)gmail.com> writes: > >> Then we compared solutions to the ant puzzle and I never got a chance >> to ask him for an example of a math thing that is not a model of the >> physical world. > > To pick a logical example, the constructible universe is hardly a model > of the physical world. > >> I told them that math is physics without the units and they all >> laughed. > > Very droll. Ha-ha. It's the way he tells them ... -- Alan Smaill
From: Alan Smaill on 11 May 2010 11:28
Charlie-Boo <shymathguy(a)gmail.com> writes: > On May 11, 10:57�am, Aatu Koskensilta <aatu.koskensi...(a)uta.fi> wrote: >> Charlie-Boo <shymath...(a)gmail.com> writes: >> > Then we compared solutions to the ant puzzle and I never got a chance >> > to ask him for an example of a math thing that is not a model of the >> > physical world. >> >> To pick a logical example, the constructible universe is hardly a model >> of the physical world. > > http://www.holderconstruction.com/Pages/default.aspx > >> > I told them that math is physics without the units and they all >> > laughed. >> >> Very droll. Ha-ha. > > What's droll mean? droller still and droller. >> -- >> Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensi...(a)uta.fi) >> >> "Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen" >> �- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus > -- Alan Smaill |