The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (1939)

Re:The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (1939) by raviman on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:27AM (#20438590)

I am by no means an expert on this, but intuitionism [1], one of the major foundational philosophies of mathematics, does view mathematics as an invention of the human mind, and as the "one true language" we use to communicate with each other. Physics then, is also "just", a mental creation.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/

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Re:The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (1939) by AnimalMuppet on Monday July 15, 2019 @11:38AM (#20441847)

It seems to me that your second sentence does not follow from the first.

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Re:The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (1939) by raviman on Monday July 15, 2019 @09:05PM (#20446688)

Fair! I implicitly assumed that physics and mathematics are isomorphic (as speculated by Dirac in the essay). And so from this assumption, and my first sentence, the second follows.

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Re:The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics (1939) by wallace_f on Monday July 15, 2019 @07:27PM (#20446236)

I would like to thank you for sharing this. That is on point.

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