Comment by adastra22
13 hours ago
Mathematics isn't art. It doesn't gain its value in human affairs from being interesting to study. I fail to see why we should cater to that.
13 hours ago
Mathematics isn't art. It doesn't gain its value in human affairs from being interesting to study. I fail to see why we should cater to that.
Importantly, which mathematicians will understand deep useful math? Who will actually care about the knowledge we can generate at will?
Yes, open source isn't art either, yet my point is that the same principle applies to both
There are many ways to stop progress and productivity
What is it, if not an art?
Truth.
What is truth if we are free to pick our axioms?
The universe is either Euclidean or not. If it were, how can theorems on non-Euclidean geometry be true?
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A science?
It isn’t even as constrained by material reality as mixing oil paints to get a certain effect is.
Nope. Science demands empirical verification. Math doesn't. No theorem is violated based on experiments and observations.