There are different loves and only one word for them all. Maybe someone's is
better than mine, but, please, don't burn me like
Giordano Bruno at the stake :-) --Mikhail
----- Original Message -----
From: Owen Densmore
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:57 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] Confessions of a Mathemechanic.
OK. I now confess it: I love math, and feel its a great, very concrete
(hence mechanical) way to work out things, to understand and press
on. I have not yet found its peer.
Many among us, apparently, feel math is somehow lacking and are
building up a fortress to defend against it.
I am not of that persuasion. Its a tool, and a good one.
No one who accepts mathematics as it is, however, considers it a point
of philosophy. We do not argue about it, we try to grasp it.
Arguing about it is for those of us who cannot understand it.
-- Owen
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