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Re: Math and music
Posted:
Oct 15, 2004 1:51 PM
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"Matthew Fields" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
<a href="news://7sSbd.213$2W4.119@news.itd.umich.edu...">news://7sSbd.213$2W4.119@news.itd.umich.edu...</a>
> In article <ckopil$5hu@dispatch.concentric.net>,
> Bob Pease <robertjp@askmeinapost.com> wrote:
> >
> >"Matthew Fields" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
> ><a href="news://7RQbd.210$2W4.24@news.itd.umich.edu...">news://7RQbd.210$2W4.24@news.itd.umich.edu...</a>
> >> In article <151020040538522534%suh@math.ucdavis.nospam.edu>,
> >> Chan-Ho Suh <suh@math.ucdavis.nospam.edu> wrote:
> >> >In article <ckns9b$57k$1@nntp.itservices.ubc.ca>, Robert Israel
> >> ><israel@math.ubc.ca> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> In article <IPIbd.40134$cJ3.533@fed1read06>, lutonomy
> ><lutonomy@cox.net>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> >I remember that movie "A Beautiful Mind" where they show how the
high
> >level
> >> >> >genius mathematicians don't think in literal "numbers" but rather
> >shapes and
> >> >> >contours.
> >> >>
> >> >> They do no such thing, in that movie (which I guess you don't
remember
> >> >> very well: it had very little mathematics in it) or any other that I
> >> >> know of.
> >> >>
> >> >> I don't know of any mathematician who thinks in numbers.
> >Mathematicians
> >> >> sometimes think _about_ numbers, but they generally think in
> >> >> concepts - maybe expressed in words, maybe geometrically, maybe
both.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >I distinctively remember a scene in "A Beautiful Mind" where John Nash
> >> >looks at a bunch of numbers and they start glowing and dancing around.
> >> >So that refutes your statement.
> >>
> >> No, it doesn't. That's a *dramatization* created by Ron Howard in
> >> consultation with his cinematographer, to try to illustrate conceptual
> >> thinking. The scene is pure fiction--nobody knows what Nash did when
> >> he consulted for the government, and Nash is not saying.
> >>
> >> >Another thing the movie demonstrated is how little mathematical
> >> >research can progress if there aren't windows around to write on.
> >>
> >> Ah, well, in that case, that refutes your statement. ppffft!
> >
> >Actually it would be easy to demonstrate a strong correlation between the
> >amount of moisture condensation on the inside of windows and strength of
the
> >mathematical communities in those locations!!
> >
> >Bob Pease
>
> And it would be easy to demonstrate a strong corrolation between the
> distance between North America and Europe and the greyness of my hair,
> too!
Yup That's true
I think it's because folks in the Midwest don't use as much hair dye as in
California.
This causes a accumulation of surplus hair dye bottles in New York which
contributes to the continental drift.
Bob Pease
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