On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Ann Racuya-Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What I like most about mathematics is the feeling of being able to hold the > whole world in my head. It is a very powerful feeling...being able to reduce > the enormous complexity and importance even power of the world and hold it > in my mind…even more the ability to manipulate its structure through symbols > and come up with new conclusions. In some way this experience gives me the > feeling of being as powerful as the world. > I think this feeling is partly the compression of experience into formal systems that Chaitin discusses. -- rec --
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