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Re: ZFC really really really sucks -- really!
Posted:
Jan 10, 2013 12:41 AM
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Virgil wrote:
> In article <0455b6ea-5e9c-4ad3-b5b1-1f284523226a@googlegroups.com>,
> david petry <david_lawrence_petry@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>ZFC is crackpot mathematics.
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> ZFC may well be crackpot as science, but there is no requirement that I
> am aware of that mathematics be subservient to science or even relevant
> to science.
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> Scientists, in particular physicists, often treat mathematics as if it
> were their private property, but to many mathematicians, like G. H.
> Hardy, the best of mathematics was quite untainted by use in physics.
Ah, but pride goeth before the fall:
http://www.messybeast.com/dragonqueen/percy-p.htm
George Cornelius
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