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In reply to the discussion: Math whiz chooses small religious school in Queens over Ivy League [View all]daaron
(763 posts)47. Or John von Neumann to a student:
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
Or appertaining more directly, he also said:
I think that it is a relatively good approximation to truth which is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations that mathematical ideas originate in empirics. But, once they are conceived, the subject begins to live a peculiar life of its own and is ... governed by almost entirely aesthetical motivations. In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much "abstract" inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas.
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And the vast majority of Newton's writings were either religious tracts or alchemical
intaglio
May 2012
#1
When he decides that there is a god there to pray to, he must not apply mathematical criteria
dmallind
May 2012
#21
He could apply his considerable reason and conclude faith is not subject to theorems.
rug
May 2012
#22
And you're not a nitwit. Still doesn't answer what it was the correct word for.
cleanhippie
May 2012
#35
So you DO think this guy's existence is proof that religiuon is rational?
2ndAmForComputers
May 2012
#70
Watch "A Beautiful Mind." In addition to that, read about Kurt Godel.
2ndAmForComputers
May 2012
#60
He definitely won't have the same academic resources but who knows where his interests will take him
rug
May 2012
#14
In college our advance algebra prof also taught Ethics and attended law school...
cynatnite
May 2012
#45