On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> > If mathematics was a language, there would not be any open problem in pure > mathematics. > Sure there would be, nobody can give a description of anything in any language if they don't know what the thing looks like. Nobody can give a mathematical description of a quantum theory of gravity because as of today nobody knows what such a theory would look like. English is a language too and it can also pose open questions about reality, such as " what color were Shakespeare's maternal grandfather's eyes?". Also, Mathematics like any language can describe fictional as well as non-fictional worlds and pose open questions about them, such as "is the continuum hypothesis true?". The equivalent in English would be "what color were Harry Potter's maternal grandfather's eyes?". > > Then UDA shows that > [...] > Oh no, we're back with that damn Universal Dance Association ! John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
