Radioactive Rivers

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Tue Mar 11 12:16:10 CST 1997


I wuz all

>> BTW it's not that math is art rather than science -- it's that math is, 
>> well, math.  More closely related to logic than to any other discipline.

Now Andrew sez

>Err, . . . logic is what a few mathematicians do, not what all of them
>do.  What the mathematicians who don't do logic *do* do is in no way
>contradictory to or competitive with logic,it just isn't logic.

Quite so -- I only meant that the mathematician's mental processes (from 
what I can understand of them) are more *like* logic than like other 
disciplines.


Cheers,
David




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