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Re:Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk
on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @12:33PM (#9727022)
because writing in those classes dragged you down so much for the rest of the day you didn't read the slides again!
Re:The Point of the Banach-Tarski Theorem – not just a curiosity
on Monday June 08, 2015 @12:07PM (#9679961)
> what makes a mathematical assumption "natural" is how elegant or inelegant its consequences are
So now we start to argue about concepts that are not well defined in the context, introducing new terms, even?
Art for art's sake is just one aspect of science and craft. You might argue that mathematical knowledge as it is incorporated in the material world, e.g. in brains, books and soundwaves, has become a real matter which entails all the complexity that makes it so difficult to grasp.