Deborah Harrell wrote: > >My grasp of formal logic is tentative at best, but I >never understood why one should propose an "imaginary >number" like the square root of -2 (IIRC the term >correctly), as - to me - math is supposed to describe >the real world, not an impossible one. > It makes me very sad that you say so. So that I don't think you have the right to this opinion, but because about a week ago I wrote a long message with subject something like "the square root of minus one is evil, why it must be eradicated" and explained why this satanic thing entered mathematics
BTW, mathematics is not supposed to describe anything. That's the job of physics Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
