Yeah. I am not on my “Real” kick today. “real” is good enough for me. “real” in the sense of honorable, respectable, normative, proper, honest, genuine, true to itself, etc. But on your definition, applied math wouldn’t be “real”, right? CS wouldn’t be real math, either. To me, math is “just” the development or use of formal systems to advance knowledge. On that understanding, the use of any kind of formal system to model a natural system is “real math.” I take it you would disagree.
Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2018 6:23 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] This is how the Japanese multiply. (Math, not biology) "Real" and "real math" are two different things. My definition of real math is exposition of the form "definition, theorem, proof". When you figure out what "real" means, let me know. Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, 6:14 PM Nick Thompson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: What!???? How could any mathematics not be REAL! FRANK! Defend yourself! NIck Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2018 5:52 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] This is how the Japanese multiply. (Math, not biology) I have a couple of books on "Vedic Math" - a large set of techniques for how to calculate. This technique was among them. Showed the books to Frank once, he was not impressed, "not real mathematics." davew On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, at 9:02 AM, Tom Johnson wrote: https://www.facebook.com/637328420/posts/10156877698343421/ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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