P.S. You will find, I suggest, - and this is of extreme importance here - > that all of people's difficulties in understanding - their confusion about > - maths, lies in their brain's failure to ground/ make sense of the various > forms. Their difficulties with fractions, calculus, integration, > differentiation (you what, mate?)... square roots of negative numbers etc. > etc. > > I don't think there's a serious comeback to these arguments... >
Well ... going beyond imaginary numbers... how do *you* do mathematics in quaternionic and octonionic algebras? Via visualization? Personally, I can sorta visualize 4D, but I I suck at visualizing 8-dimensional space, so I tend to reason more abstractly when thinking about such things... -- Ben ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=52975309-02dd4d
