Re: The Object

2015-04-23 Thread LizR
That was a discrete comment. -- 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 t

Re: The Object

2015-04-23 Thread Dennis Ochei
My discrete mathematics professor once said "there are two types of students: those you can't teach mathematics and those you don't have to." I got a kick out of that -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this

Re: The Object

2015-04-08 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
sufficiency of money. -Original Message- From: LizR To: everything-list Sent: Wed, Apr 8, 2015 1:48 am Subject: Re: The Object More from those crazy mathematicians http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mathematicians-chase-moonshine-s-shadow/ Mathematicians weren’t

Re: The Object

2015-04-07 Thread LizR
ed on everyone. > > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail > > > -Original Message- > From: Bruno Marchal > To: everything-list > Sent: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 03:01 PM > Subject: Re: The Object > > > > On 07 Apr 2015, at 20:19, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > >

Re: The Object

2015-04-07 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
students, or whatever excuse. Thus, being able to learn mathematics is truly a gift, and is not bestowed on everyone. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 03:01 PM Subject: Re: The Object On 07 Apr 2015

Re: The Object

2015-04-07 Thread Bruno Marchal
are not. I add, sigh! -Original Message- From: LizR To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 1:11 am Subject: Re: The Object By the way, the phrase "above my paygrade" was invented by someone less intelligent than you to keep you in your place, at least until they get aro

Re: The Object

2015-04-07 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
correct answer here. And yes, it's still above my intellectual pay grade. Cheers -Original Message- From: LizR To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Apr 6, 2015 11:41 pm Subject: Re: The Object That all sounds very plausible to me. (Although sadly my pay grade does

Re: The Object

2015-04-07 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
I know people who do math really well, I am eternally envious. The feudalism thing is likely correct but beyond this specific discussion. They are winning and we are not. I add, sigh! -Original Message- From: LizR To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Apr 7, 2015 1:11 am Subject: Re: The

Re: The Object

2015-04-06 Thread LizR
By the way, the phrase "above my paygrade" was invented by someone less intelligent than you to keep you in your place, at least until they get around to reintroducing full scale feudalism. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To u

Re: The Object

2015-04-06 Thread LizR
That all sounds very plausible to me. (Although sadly my pay grade doesn't match that fact.) -- 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+u

Re: The Object

2015-04-06 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
is logical, but rational? It sort of works for me and all I am doing is modifying such thinking, on the fly, as we say in the states. -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Apr 6, 2015 5:18 am Subject: Re: The Object On 04 Apr 2015, at 19:04,

Re: The Object

2015-04-06 Thread Bruno Marchal
in certain people if I say too much. So let me say some vague things: There exists an object, a mathematical object, which has certain properties. For reasons that should be obvious, there is no general agreement on what the best name for this object is, so for the sake of convenience, let’s

Re: The Object

2015-04-04 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
tiful intellect, and emotions. -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Sat, Apr 4, 2015 11:10 am Subject: Re: The Object Nice! Quite Platonist! "We never invent anything---we always only discover." would assess a platonist.

Re: The Object

2015-04-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
tain people if I say too much. So let me say some vague things: There exists an object, a mathematical object, which has certain properties. For reasons that should be obvious, there is no general agreement on what the best name for this object is, so for the sake of convenience, let’s ju

Re: The Object

2015-01-07 Thread zibblequibble
say too much. So let me say some vague things: > > There exists an object, a mathematical object, which has certain > properties. For reasons that should be obvious, there is no general > agreement on what the best name for this object is, so for the sake of > conv

The Object

2015-01-07 Thread Jason Resch
no general agreement on what the best name for this object is, so for the sake of convenience, let’s just call it The Object. Your world, that is, the entire universe that you can observe, is an infinitesimal part of that Object. And so is mine. And so is *every universe that can possibly exist.*

Is the object of self-reference unique?

2002-05-22 Thread Stephen P. King
Dear Friends, I have been thinking very hard about the title question and itsimplications, re: Goedel's constructions and Goedel numbering/coding. Irefer the the following papers:1) http://nl.ijs.si/~damjan/phen.html2) http://www.math.princeton.edu/jfnj/texts_and_graphics/LOGIC/talk.CMU/