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A Question Of Priority
Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To Posted by Jim Bergquist on February 15, 2001 08:05:15 UTC |
I'd like to throw in a philosophical question. Which is the dependent: mathematics or the world? It seems to me that our mathematics is dependent on the universe or what we see of it. I do not think that the universe is inherently mathmatical. Mathematics refers to data and methods for manipulating it such as algorithms or functions. The data exists in a context and is interpreted by means of a theory. What we theorize about the universe does not change what actually is. We try to capture as much of the existing universe with the mathematics that we can create. It is the fit to the universe that gives much of the value to our mathematics.
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