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Re: Endorsement of Wolfgang Mueckenheim from a pseudo-serious non-mathematician
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Jan 31, 2013 8:53 PM
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On Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:39:44 PM UTC-8, Virgil wrote:
> In article <587156d4-e3c8-48e4-b849-4ab2924893cd@googlegroups.com>,
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> david petry <david_lawrence_petry@yahoo.com> wrote:> > It is eminently reasonable to believe that the purpose of mathematics is to
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> > provide a rigorous and practically useful conceptual framework for reasoning
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> > quantitatively about real world phenomena.
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> There are many mathematicians of note, such as G.H. Hardy,
> who take quite a different view.
There's a very real difference between mathematics that has no currently known applications, and (pseudo-) mathematics that provably can never have applications.
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