jgill

Succinct. But merely a curiosity in physics and math. Perhaps most meaningful in sociological settings.

Regarding teaching of math Barad and others speak of removing or blunting "sharp edges" of definitions and concepts to enable students "entanglement" ...

:up: In a nutshell.

I continue to look into New Materialism as it affects math or physics teaching. Here is an excerpt from the Article Multimodality and New Materialism ...

Still trying to see if there is any meat on this bone, I find A STRUCTURAL THEORY OF EVERYTHING Brian D. Josephson Mind–Matter Unification Project, Ca...

A nice metaphysical topic in math. :up:

I tried reading the 1993 paper describing this shift in thinking, but only came away with the idea of using semi-classical methods of approximation to...

Intra-action seems interwoven with Science studies and I suppose the teaching of math would necessarily be in the context of societal effects, etc. Th...

It's interesting that in the complex plane a square is usually designated as two dimensional, but a closed contour is designated as one dimensional. A...

Sure. I work with contours in the complex plane all the time, and rarely are they straight lines. Whatever is "decided" here will have little impact o...

I was curious about Barad's philosophy of mathematics. It seems she (they) was influenced by Oresme and Leibniz from centuries ago. But I am fuzzy abo...

Cosmology at its best. A PhD thesis could be written on this observation. :roll:

I haven't seen it yet, but I really enjoyed the WGN production of the series Manhattan several years ago.

But now I see there beyond the sleeping town square An equation, bare :cool:

Within certain systems of thought, rigorously defined, there are absolutes. Mathematics, for instance. In general it's best to avoid any such perspect...

Trying to fit in to the intellectual atmosphere here. :smile: And practicing what one of the few professional philosophers on the site said was an app...

Descriptions can vary in detail. We can describe the path of a cannonball mathematically but that is a far cry from being on the receiving end of that...

You might want to spell that out.

True, though relativity came along. A far more relevant and interesting conflict of ideas of time is Einstein vs Bergson.

No need to start thinking about the obvious. Thanks for the reminder. :smile:

I wouldn't dare! Although the proposed label has a certain appeal.

Important at the time, virtual trivia now. Possibly a subject for philosophers to entertain. :smile:

You've got to be kidding. Reciprocal? In a very rough sense of the word. Not mathematically. No coastline is patterned the same upon closer and closer...

Don't need fractals. There is no intermediate case. The continuous is the limit of the discrete.The limit definition of the common integral does the j...

Both were eclipsed by Weierstrass and Cauchy with their formalization of limits. :cool: Non-standard analysis was formalized in the last century - it ...

Driving down a two lane one direction street when two bicycle lanes appear, sending you into a single lane. No matter how often you drive this street ...

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Absolute continuity I know, not quite what you mean. :cool:

Don't forget the center. From the perspective of some computer programs perhaps. However, the length of a contour is defined as such a sum taken to th...

I've always thought of infinitesimals as part of the metaphysics of mathematics. They don't really exist in normal arithmetic, but have a mathematical...

How much information is required to describe each? The straight line is defined by two points, whereas a curved line requires more information.

Yes, by all means. In physics and math the word instant means instantaneous or infinitesimal - having no length or duration. However, in common usage ...

A bit convoluted. To exist possibly means to persist through a duration of time. Can something exist in only an instant of time? The blink of an eye, ...

:up: Toth is a fine expositor. So are Muller and Fernee.

Not really. You fall asleep and awaken in the blink of an eye, finding that an hour has past and the world has moved on. If time measures change, or g...

How does one respond to babble with a question mark at its end?

. Where is metaphysics making the guesses here? Was it metaphysics that presented string theory? Or perhaps simply a result of scientific speculation?...

If it can. So far the Measurement Problem and String theory are left dangling in a scientific void. My take is that metaphysics in this regard is more...

As a person with math background you might ask this question of that discipline as well. Every day about 80 articles are submitted to ArXiv.org . Ther...

Mine was removed in 1949. No aftereffects I know of.

Hi, fj. Welcome to the forum. :cool:

Your mathematics background shining through. :cool:

An understatement of impressive magnitude. Scientists seek truth, while philosophers argue the definition of truth. Interesting interplay.

Unbiased reporting raises no hackles and is considered too bland. It's all about confirmation bias these days. A couple of years ago I thought NPR was...

You write well, very impressive. More so if I were to understand what you say. But then as a mathematician I can not skillfully put into words the sen...

Were you a scientist or mathematician you might realize the desires, loves, pleasures, etc. arising from the practice of the profession. To the contra...

The theory of convergence involves all the functions. In practice, on the computer, I simply specify N. Usually N=100 or 1000.

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Although public transportation is a high priority among Americans, only about 5% use it to commute to work. Outside the cities I doubt 65% want to mov...