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1 posted on 12/19/2013 2:16:52 PM PST by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

Well, that puts a curve in the works.


2 posted on 12/19/2013 2:21:58 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Heartlander

Well, that puts a curve in the works.


3 posted on 12/19/2013 2:21:59 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Heartlander

Mathematics is the study of scaling. How to get from one to infinity, and all that that implies.

Numbers can’t be numbered.


4 posted on 12/19/2013 2:22:16 PM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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These aren’t new arguments. He is making what is generally referred to as the transcendentalist apologetic argument for the existence of God. Generally, the rules of logic are used rather than math but either will work because fundamentally the two are the same thing. A deep, but very interesting, subject to jump into. I’ve heard more than a few atheists get chewed up by taking on the transcendentalist argument in radio shows.


5 posted on 12/19/2013 2:24:33 PM PST by circlecity
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To: Heartlander
It wasn't that long ago that academically, mathematics was a sub-set of Philosophy
6 posted on 12/19/2013 2:25:09 PM PST by llevrok (Obama 2008 : "If you vote for me, you can keep your country")
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To: Heartlander

Mathematics is the foundation of science, the one thing that binds all branches of it.


7 posted on 12/19/2013 2:30:43 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Heartlander
Euclidian geometry deals with flat spaces, such as the three-dimensional flat space. For millennia people thought we inhabited a flat, three-dimensional world. It was only after Einstein that we realised we lived in a curved space and that light doesn't travel in a straight line but bends around a star.

Wow, what a coincidence! Just this past Monday night me and my homies were in a bar watching the Lions on Monday night football and discussing this very subject........

10 posted on 12/19/2013 2:36:43 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
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12 posted on 12/19/2013 2:43:55 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Heartlander

Dennis Prager interviewed him on his radio program within the last couple of weeks and it was a quite interesting piece. The book is on my Amazon wish list for later purchase!


14 posted on 12/19/2013 3:03:43 PM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Heartlander

FReepin’ mathematics thread ping. (its been a while).


16 posted on 12/19/2013 3:10:11 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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It was only after Einstein that we realised we lived in a curved space and that light doesn't travel in a straight line but bends around a star.

Curved space-time! This is not a nit pick. Newtonian gravitation is recovered from Einstein's Equation by consideration of the largest term, which couples a flat space with linear time.

You know even Michio Kaku makes this error, and I know he knows better, in his TV presentation. He mentions spacetime but then reverts to the "curved space" language, which is very misleading.

21 posted on 12/19/2013 3:55:46 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Heartlander

Thanks for posting this.


22 posted on 12/19/2013 5:16:17 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: Heartlander
Does maths exist without human beings to observe it, like gravity? Or have we made it up in order to understand the physical world?

I majored in operations research (a kind of math) at the graduate level and would say that math has always been there...waiting for man to discover it.

There is an equation for everything and every movement...just sitting there...waiting

The question is...who developed it and the reality on which it is based.

Math is not man created...it is man discovered, God created.

One would have to be blind to miss that point.

Discovering the intricacy of math is like discovering a library in a log cabin atop Mt. Everest. One cannot simply conclude that the cabin and library simply evolved.

Someone had to put it there.

The beauty of mathematics is profound proof of God. It is like a magnificent machine discovered on a distant planet.

Such things don't just evolve. They are created.

23 posted on 12/19/2013 5:41:32 PM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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http://www.infocobuild.com/education/audio-video-courses/mathematics/math53-fall2009-berkeley.html

I know it’s Berkeley but here is a link to his classroom lectures for Multivariable Calculus from Fall 2009. Just in case someone wants a supplementary study aid. They’ll probably fire him if they find out he was on Prager.


27 posted on 12/19/2013 6:05:12 PM PST by wrcase
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To: Heartlander

When God created this universe He set up the laws of physics and math and gravity and energy and mass etc etc etc. These laws will remain in effect until He ends this universe and creates our new world.


32 posted on 12/19/2013 8:31:44 PM PST by buffyt (Abortion is murder. It is not a choice, it is a CHILD of GOD.)
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