On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:49:40AM +1200, LizR wrote: > On 15 June 2015 at 10:41, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > > > To summarise, there appears to be two quite distinct questions here: > > > > a) Given there are regularities in Nature, why is our mathematics so > > effective. As Brent says, this is not surprising - evolution would see > > to it that we would choose a mathematical system out of the many > > possible that would be effective. > > > > That isn't surprising, of course - but I assume Brent wasn't being quite > *that* disingenuous. What is surprising (if anything at all is) is that our > world is amenable to description by maths. >
More of a genuine misunderstanding rather than disingenuity, I would say... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
