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From: Tom Trevathan on 23 Jul 2010 20:32 Very nice article. Lots of truth from his experiences. "Dom" <DRosa(a)teikyopost.edu> wrote in message news:be648fdf-f854-4d99-bbeb-f5f30ca1db7f(a)b33g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... > The truly superb article, "What Is Mathematics For?," by Underwood > Dudley has been published in the May 2010 issue of the AMS Notices. > > > http://www.ams.org/notices/201005/rtx100500608p.pdf
From: Arturo Magidin on 23 Jul 2010 21:48 On May 30, 1:15 am, William Elliot <ma...(a)rdrop.remove.com> wrote: > On Sat, 29 May 2010, rich burge wrote: > > On Apr 25, 7:14�am, Dom <DR...(a)teikyopost.edu> wrote: > >> The truly superb article, "What Is Mathematics For?," byUnderwood > >> Dudley has been published in the May 2010 issue of the AMS Notices. > > > Yes, it is a truly suberb article. My first disagreement with the > > author would be in not including Geometry explicitly as part of > > mathematics: "So that there is no confusion, let me say that by > > 'mathematics' I mean algebra, trigonometry, calculus, linear algebra, > > and so on: all those subjects beyond arithmetic." > > Absurd; geometry is mathematics. Analytic geometry is algebra and > geometry; differential geometry is calculus and geometry. > > By your myopic view of mathematics, you also exclude set theory > and topology and who knows what else, Riemannian geometry, the > mathematics of curved spaces, of non-Euclidean geometries? He complained that he did not include it EXPLICITLY. Nowhere did he imply that it was not included in the statement. You really should learn to get off your high horse, given how utterly unintelligible you are half the time, and how utterly misguided and stupid your reading of other people's words are the other half. -- Arturo Magidin
From: spudnik on 24 Jul 2010 14:51 sorry, Gauss said, the Queen of them, which has been supposed to imply that there was a King, to be physical economy -- at least as important as numbertheory (big chunk of _Cranks_). thus: I like Dudley's books, not particularly _Cranks_, but he misses the boat in the second paragraph, because he emphasizes mere arithmetic *and* the subjects that are not quite *mathematica*, or *quadrivium*, and this is the self-same problem of all primary or "elementary" ed. in math, a sort of glorification of Euclid's encyclopedia, addended to the trivium (or, the three Rs .-) http://www.ams.org/notices/201005/rtx100500608p.pdf thus: maybe, if they stopped listening to alt.deism, they'd start funding you, instead; either way, definitely a New Age soundtrack a.k.a. Muzak TM. > "Listening"?... http://en.wookiepoopya.org/wiki/Synesthesia thus: Hawking's got a new set of fairy tales?... well, he's a part of the Trinity on STreKtheNGeneratioN, so, He can do that! thus: Liebniz's *vis viva* is half of mvv; compare to Galileo's linear ideal, but don't try to disprove his relativity, til you've gotten off of the boat! --les ducs d'oil! http://wlym.com --BP's next bailout of Wall St. and "the City" (of London, gated community & financial district), or the last, if nothing is left of the USA. http://tarpley.net/online-books/against-oligarchy/ http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/ http://tarpley.net/world-crisis-radio/
From: Dom on 2 Aug 2010 13:54
On Jul 23, 8:32 pm, "Tom Trevathan" <tomtrevat...(a)suddenlink.net> wrote: > Very nice article. Lots of truth from his experiences. > > "Dom" <DR...(a)teikyopost.edu> wrote in message > > news:be648fdf-f854-4d99-bbeb-f5f30ca1db7f(a)b33g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... > > > The truly superb article, "What Is Mathematics For?," by Underwood > > Dudley has been published in the May 2010 issue of the AMS Notices. > > > http://www.ams.org/notices/201005/rtx100500608p.pdf The August 2010 issue of Notices contains four letters about Dudley's article: http://www.ams.org/notices/201007/rtx100700822p.pdf |