On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:28:20AM -0700, B Soroud wrote: > anyways... I'm reconciled with you guys.... I'll try not to play nicer yet > remain a critic. > > p.s. I'm no mathematician, computer scientist, or physicist.... I was > schooled in the humanities and avoided mathematics like the plague....... so > I will need to ask you guys in the future to translate things into simple > English. > > I hope this is not necessarily like Plato's academy: "Let no one ignorant of > mathematics enter here"
No - it is not, but a willingness to grapple with the concepts of mathematics is a requirement for understanding. Most people here are happy to help someone with genuine inquiry achieve understanding. I have collected what I think to be an essential toolkit of mathematical concepts in Appendix A of my book "Theory of Nothing" (which is available as a free download, or in hardcopy through Amazon). > > surely there must be a way to express your ideas in plain English. > It is not a question of the language (indeed mathematical notation rarely appears in this forum due to the difficulty in expressing it in plain ASCII), but of the concepts. Everyday English usage does not have the necessary concepts to tackle this subject, and even our present day mathematics barely does. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
