@worrydream Here's a related piece from @DavidDeutschOxf, that I find very stimulatingpic.twitter.com/40F7CBYL0n
From von Neumann's essay "The Mathematician", a nice remark on the r'ship of math to science: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Von_Neumann_Part_1.html …pic.twitter.com/t9lpWO6rak
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@michael_nielsen@worrydream Thanks. It should be 'custodes' BTW. My typo survived many rounds of checking but no one checked the checkers…
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@worrydream That's from his beautiful 1985 paper introducing quantum Turing machines: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos576/papers/deutsch85.pdf …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@worrydream Another stimulating essay, by one of Kolmogorov's great students, V. I. Arnold: http://pauli.uni-muenster.de/~munsteg/arnold.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@michael_nielsen The Aleksandrov book is great in introducing every field of math w its origin in physical science. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0486409163Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@worrydream@michael_nielsen They lost me at "The answer is simple."Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@worrydream@michael_nielsen I was debugging something complex this afternoon and in my despair, this was like manna from heaven.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@worrydream@michael_nielsen what I read here reminds me of the first third of this book http://www.amazon.com/dp/0465037712 pic.twitter.com/Rj49bsh6E4
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@michael_nielsen always makes me suspicious...as if there might be some other math that other information processing machines discover. -
@dabacon@michael_nielsen Oh, come on. Surely everyone will discover that three plus blue is glorp. - 3 more replies
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