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Thank you. That's very clear. I appreciate your commentary. She popped Cohen's Filter pretty good. :smile: And good ones they are! Thank you for your ...

It seems hard to separate conformation bias from appreciation of interesting ideas. How could you do that? Or is this a non-issue?

That would be good. I had heard the expression but had no idea what it was. The article came as a revelation to me. And here I thought the reals consi...

Good move! :cool:

I found the comments about Cohen's Filter in the article I linked fascinating. Like most math people I knew of his breakthrough results, but was unfam...

Here is an interesting article about cardinality. Seems appropriate for the ongoing discussion. Continuum Hypothesis?

I agree. I would prefer to see the total post count and then, possibly, only the "likes" for that specific post, not cumulative - which seems meaningl...

Occasionally, this is a matter of psychology and not parental avoidance. Years ago I read that generally it is inappropriate to expect a child under f...

In complex analysis one speaks of all lines in the complex plane extending from the origin (0+0i) to "the point at infinity" - which makes little sens...

Depends on the mathematician. For me, usually infinity is unboundedness, hence a quality of sorts.

Are you comparing someone who fails to call a non-binary person "they" to a guard at Auschwitz locking a Jew in a gas chamber in the 1940s? As with th...

The plot thickens . . .

Curious. How is poetry the opposite of math? I'm not saying it isn't. But there is poetry in math, usually comprehensible only to those who study the ...

How wrong I was, and how deep the posts that followed . . .

I gave you a boost, gmba. You deserve it for this gem.

1+2+3+ ...

\sum\limits_{1}^{\infty }{n}=-\frac{1}{12} :scream:

I took a class in surveying at Ga Tech in the 1950s, roaming all over campus with classmates and equipment. Then, the next summer, working for the US ...

Me too

I skimmed the first article and this caught my eye. I only know renormalization from afar.

Thanks for the links. Here's a short excerpt from the first that is germane: Thanks for chiming in. Thought-provoking comments! :cool:

Well, I'm glad I won't be around to see that. Has an actual, real live physicist posted on this thread? There have been a lot of assumptions about phy...

What agency would allow or disallow opinions and enforce their ruling?

It took me a moment to understand your comment. Then it dawned on me you are returning to the OP! Thanks. :cool:

I think not! Some nerve. :gasp: No butterfly effect. Just the opposite. I wouldn't say the ocean is infinite. It just seems that way. I don't think on...

It may certainly seem that way. But I suspect it's a trick of the mind and not comparable to physical reality. Who knows?

Among the two or three participants? I would think it might provide viewer relief. But to each his own. :roll: Just thought I'd supply recent informat...

Donato Carrisi. "The Whisperer", 2012

ArXiv.Org : 161 math papers on Wednesday. 4 in Logic (foundations). No one I knew in my corner of the mathematical community had anything much to say ...

I thought it already had one? The mystery deepens. If a bitcoin can go from $40 to $50,000 in a couple of years anything is possible.

William A. Bass High School, Atlanta. Named after a Confederate Captain. Long gone. RIP

Get out of the sun of introspection.

Wow! I am really impressed to realize Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) had the perspicacity to realize his efforts at Non-Euclidean geometry involved notions ...

Curious. Why remove his thread on academia?

True. The degree of meaningfulness in direct proportion to the number of hours spent working in that discipline. In real and complex analysis one take...

Oh oh. I apologize to Ms Xtrix. :worry:

Finally, an element of intelligence in this conversation, rather than hysteria. Then one gets into the nitty gritty of degrees of suffering and how to...

How many of you actually live any philosophy? For me, I've followed am existential path, hoping to create meaning in my life. At times I have succeede...

Having left the profession before remote learning became fashionable, I am impressed with this thread. An ideal arrangement having two highly competen...

Well done! Handy reference for an oldtimer, Too. :cool:

Interesting ideas, but a tad too ethereal for me. I prefer the solidity of pure mathematics. :cool:

Mitigation and adaptation. The former requires worldwide commitments. The latter can be dealt with by individual nations. Which do you think has the b...

The simple instructions he gave worked on my first attempt. No drugs. It was an astounding experience and I thought "there are other realities." As ti...

Yes. Many years ago. Castaneda's Art of Dreaming. Extreme clarity of images, in full control - pure will it seemed.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Dream_of_Gold.jpg I can attest this (my) mathematical concept was produced purely for aesthetic be...

Oh my. I can be wrong and we all will still die. But not all from climate change. I could push every minute of every day, along with everyone else, bu...

For mathematicians, the words abstract and pure are frequently taken to mean the same thing. Here are comments from the Wiki page: As a working math p...

And then there are those occasional "aha!" moments when a physicist uses a mathematician's abstractions to describe a physical process well enough tha...

I suspect it might be if one thinks of significantly slowing the process. I don't see the nations of Earth coming together in a meaningful way, but I ...