tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post690858816869040112..comments2024-03-07T10:48:12.443-05:00Comments on freecounterpoint: Why Mathematics is horseshit.Mr roThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-81219675567766679302012-08-25T19:41:00.033-04:002012-08-25T19:41:00.033-04:00Edison was one Funny guy.Edison was one Funny guy.Arelcao Akleoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05804389181882366153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-34299645268580111442012-08-25T19:05:38.854-04:002012-08-25T19:05:38.854-04:00Tesla got conned by Edison, that's right.Tesla got conned by Edison, that's right. Tecumsehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18315601589942322847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-40341847193717270812012-08-25T18:30:58.566-04:002012-08-25T18:30:58.566-04:00Those suga-pula are not too sharp at the business ...Those suga-pula are not too sharp at the business game, eh?Mr roThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-81058985157590928002012-08-25T18:12:53.338-04:002012-08-25T18:12:53.338-04:00Once upon a time, Herr Rott served in the kaiserli...Once upon a time, Herr Rott served in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_Navy" rel="nofollow">kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine</a>. He was based at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pula_naval_yard.jpg" rel="nofollow">Pula naval yard</a> (the successor to the <i>Colonia Pietas Iulia Pola Pollentia Herculanea</i>), where he met <a href="http://Tecumsehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18315601589942322847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-38646736109007247602012-08-25T17:48:58.665-04:002012-08-25T17:48:58.665-04:00as in ... don't talk to me about naval traditi...as in ... don't talk to me about naval tradition ? <br /><br />or are you just happy listening to the Pogues ;) <br /><br />cheers,<br />A. LeverkuhnA. Leverkuhnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18371907248087268827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-7584877040653888462012-08-25T16:30:24.533-04:002012-08-25T16:30:24.533-04:00Kühn: turkish coffee -- sodomy, rum, and the lash?...Kühn: turkish coffee -- sodomy, rum, and the lash?Mr roThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-18099433954979093782012-08-25T16:26:07.036-04:002012-08-25T16:26:07.036-04:00Falcón Dam.<a href="http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/falcon/destruction.html" rel="nofollow">Falcón</a> Dam.Mr roThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-11726748240808471402012-08-25T16:22:47.844-04:002012-08-25T16:22:47.844-04:00Tecs: turkish coffee --- sediment, cardamom, and a...Tecs: turkish coffee --- sediment, cardamom, and all ? A. Leverkuhnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18371907248087268827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-9994256798171858872012-08-25T16:22:41.928-04:002012-08-25T16:22:41.928-04:00Ada Kaleh. If Tecs is inviting us for coffee there...<i>Ada Kaleh</i>. If Tecs is inviting us for coffee there, I think that I have understood his strategy for avoiding the tab on reading the link he provided above.Mr roThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-33552199024902377202012-08-25T16:17:08.540-04:002012-08-25T16:17:08.540-04:00The follies of dictators are greater.The follies of dictators are greater.Mr roThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-78946154022762433942012-08-25T16:11:52.116-04:002012-08-25T16:11:52.116-04:00Memories of lost island:
And what if the people r...<a href="http://www.hungarianreview.com/article/an_oasis_on_the_danube" rel="nofollow">Memories</a> of lost island:<br /><i><br />And what if the people refuse to move? someone asked, at a meeting of top Romanian and Yugoslav Communist officials, sometime in 1967. Ahmed Engur held his breath. He lived on the island of Ada Kaleh, and was now serving coffee round the long table in Turnu Severin Tecumsehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18315601589942322847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-47045510229012950942012-08-25T16:06:38.698-04:002012-08-25T16:06:38.698-04:00As for coffee, forget about the British, and even ...As for coffee, forget about the British, and even the Italians. The best coffee I had (at least as a kid) was on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Kaleh" rel="nofollow">Ada Kaleh</a>, a long-lost island in the middle of the Iron Gates. What a stupid thing to do to dam those spectacular gorges on the Danube, and submerge that island. You guys ever heard of it?Tecumsehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18315601589942322847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-3057355569727031212012-08-25T16:04:38.666-04:002012-08-25T16:04:38.666-04:00The $\zeta$-function is an analytic number theory ...The $\zeta$-function is an analytic number theory character, at closest to your barren discipline, Tecs. Go stare gawking at a "$\partial$" for awhile, trying hard to banish the "6" from your mind. <br />When you succeed, contact my advisor. He can help.Mr roThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-66546758961882339302012-08-25T15:57:59.878-04:002012-08-25T15:57:59.878-04:00Those connections you are mentioning, Leverkühn, ...Those connections you are mentioning, Leverkühn, are fascinating. Of course, they are lost on Mr Rot, who'd rather see sparks flying out of a Tesla infernal machine, than to decipher the mysteries of the zeta function. Tecumsehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18315601589942322847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-64348769177499956782012-08-25T15:21:39.794-04:002012-08-25T15:21:39.794-04:00One needs not be a connoisseur or experimental phy...One needs not be a connoisseur or experimental physical chemist to distinguish sewage from Alpine spring water. <br />I'll stay off the pom coffee as if it were sodomy, except for Caffè Nero in major airports there, which is analogous to sex with a babe, in comparison.Mr roThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-53745208933882777362012-08-25T15:10:40.841-04:002012-08-25T15:10:40.841-04:00
Strangely, according to some Grothendieckians I k...<br />Strangely, according to some Grothendieckians I know, the difficulty in writing down the isomorphism (for all powers of a fixed prime say) for these special cyclic subgroups of elliptic curves, is an artifact of the geometry of the corresponding *complex* elliptic curve ... something to do with the Weil conjectures which relates the Beti number of a (complex) variety to the problem of A. Leverkuhnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18371907248087268827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-30879141129313100942012-08-25T14:46:22.671-04:002012-08-25T14:46:22.671-04:00This sort of chasm between existence and computabi...This sort of chasm between existence and computability is a commonplace in analysis. <br />For example, in PDE, even PDEs from physics, the existence and uniqueness of solutions can be obtained from general considerations, but actually computing a solution is impossible, even approximately to decent precision.<br />This is even more hopeless than chaos, as that weak tea is about ODEs which are Mr roThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-53937541939749992112012-08-25T13:03:32.551-04:002012-08-25T13:03:32.551-04:00On a slightly related tack, it struck me two days ...On a slightly related tack, it struck me two days ago, after listening to a group theory lecture by one of the more notable physicists here, that: There are plenty of interesting examples of group homomorphisms in physics and geometry --- e.g. that SU(2) is the double cover of SO(3) --- but very few interesting examples group *isomorphisms*. On the other hand, in number theory, there are examplesA. Leverkuhnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18371907248087268827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-13740641028082534662012-08-25T09:44:33.739-04:002012-08-25T09:44:33.739-04:00Ans: Logic games for kids that can't handle th...Ans: Logic games for kids that can't handle the drama of a word problem.Mr roThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-4191582691907081702012-08-25T04:58:42.624-04:002012-08-25T04:58:42.624-04:00Bull. How about Number Theory? Bull. How about Number Theory? Tecumsehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18315601589942322847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-29866703614231804772012-08-25T04:26:33.802-04:002012-08-25T04:26:33.802-04:00AA, what you write here is rather horseshitical: M...AA, what you write here is rather horseshitical: <i>Mathematics which pays attention to more than just that.</i> What's "that"? Do you mean that there's more math than just that which is applicable to physics? <br />In that case, you're right, but that math inapplicable to physics is the horseshit.Mr roThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836243623753244149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-54486925088108412232012-08-24T23:31:20.041-04:002012-08-24T23:31:20.041-04:00What is this crap?What is this crap?Tecumsehhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18315601589942322847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24805633.post-22250368831336973502012-08-24T21:35:31.650-04:002012-08-24T21:35:31.650-04:00Bah. "seeing the equations as relations"...Bah. "seeing the equations as relations" and "imbuing the symbols with a physical meaning" is fine. But how is it supposed to make Mathematics which pays attention to more than just that "horseshit"?<br /><br /> Arelcao Akleoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05804389181882366153noreply@blogger.com