OK. I now confess it: I love math, and feel its a great, very concrete (hence mechanical) way to work out things, to understand and press on. I have not yet found its peer.
Many among us, apparently, feel math is somehow lacking and are building up a fortress to defend against it. I am not of that persuasion. Its a tool, and a good one. No one who accepts mathematics as it is, however, considers it a point of philosophy. We do not argue about it, we try to grasp it. Arguing about it is for those of us who cannot understand it. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org