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
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
- Original Message -
From: Jack Leibowitz
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] art and science
Russ Abbott's comments are interesting. They remind me of a science fiction
movie I saw in my ancient past. A
