Re: [FRIAM] Fw: art and science

2009-01-11 Thread Russ Abbott
I think you're agreeing with me. It's the concepts that are important, not the equations. To the extent that you can read the equations as statements about concepts the equations talk to you. But a computer can read and calculate with those same equations without the concepts. The concepts are in t

Re: [FRIAM] Fw: art and science

2009-01-11 Thread Russell Standish
Russ Abbott wrote > > > Mathematics is a language of equations and > numbers. Of course equations operate within frameworks, which > themselves involve concepts--such as dimensionality, symmetry, > etc. These are important concepts. But the equations themselves are > conceptless. They are simply