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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