Thanks, Roger. I appreciate the aphorisms that attempt to place mathematics in the context of a larger human project:
- The largest coherent artifact that’s been built by civilization. - The longest continuous human thought. but then also, by contrast: - A proto-text whose existence is only postulated. Also along humanitarian lines, there is the view presented in Imre Lakatos' "Proofs and Refutations"[∴]. There, the process of doing mathematics provides grounds for a human discourse that spans generations, the medium as well as the common object allowing minds separated in time and space to meet. The literature of mathematics then, as portrayed by Lakatos, manifests as a side-effect of intimacies expressed between humans over these strange grounds. [∴] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_and_Refutations -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
