Why the taboo on talking about what mathematics is and how it works? A guess: https://meaningness.com/metablog/how-to-think/comments#comment-1627 …pic.twitter.com/P6WZCqybD5
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Why the taboo on talking about what mathematics is and how it works? A guess: https://meaningness.com/metablog/how-to-think/comments#comment-1627 …pic.twitter.com/P6WZCqybD5
Fascinating blog on how physics and mathematics are actually done, and what it’s like:https://drossbucket.wordpress.com/
That blog is by the person who prompted my Lovecraftian speculation about real numbers. I’ve been meaning to post highlights for a while…pic.twitter.com/LRQqwlDjpX
If you are unfamiliar with the unsolved foundational crisis, my favorite account—informal, entertaining, eccentric: https://arxiv.org/html/nlin/0004007 …
So what exactly is the crisis: is it that some do not want to accept the philosophical implications of Gödel? 1/2
2/2 namely that "reality outruns knowledge" (JR Lucas).
That’s part of it, but a late one. It began with Cantor theory and “actual infinities”, which many mathematicians didn’t accept at the time.
And maybe they were right not to, because trying to make sense of them led to Godel problems. But, you can’t do calculus without them.
Real numbers look finite on the outside, but hve actual infinities hidden within —and this seems to make mathematicians uneasy.
Better than floating point numbers, that look infinite on the outside, but are actually finite and horrifying.
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