Is God a mathematician?
(I know this is from late 2013, but didn't see it posted in a search. Sorry if duped.)
Mathematics is the best language for precise description of the world, IMHO. Much better than, say, Marxism.
Even chaos has a pattern
Without precise mathematics you can’t run a large business, build skyscrapers, or put men into orbit.
To summarize, it works well when it works well; it doesn't work well when it doesn't work well.
How 'bout another language, like, say French?
As a Nature Lover, I see ‘math’ everywhere; fractals - literally EVERYWHERE!
Google these images:
The face of a sunflower
Romanesco broccoli
Snowflakes
Succulents & Cacti
Trees
Lightening
Seashells
Ferns
Peacocks (full male plumage)
Decorative Kale or Cabbage
The Iris of your eye
Sliced open Kiwi fruit or oranges, lemons, etc.
Coral
The veins in your body
This ain’t no bloody accident! :)
Everything about our universe is mathematical. We experience the world in a mathematical fashion.
Figures don’t lie. But liars figure.
Without mathematics, how would the DemocRATS convince their low information voter base that “da conomy B boomin’” on Thursdays?
There are several perspectives at work. To start with, compare the abstract of mathematics with other abstracts, such as language or how we *interpret* sensory information.
People have a terrible habit of confusing their descriptions of the world with the world itself. For example, Al Gore and his cronies believe they can describe the climate of the Earth, so that ability somehow conveys on them the magical control of the climate, though it is vastly greater than they are.
As far as the abstract interpretation of our senses, this only works with our limited agreement of what we perceive. However, people with synesthesia have different perceptions of the same thing, perhaps “seeing” music as color.
Yet another element to consider is that people seem to have some ability to make approximate estimations, for example, if you spill dry beans on a table, you can guesstimate that there are *about* 200 of them, without really knowing.
In perhaps most cases, that is close enough, at least for the purpose you intend for the beans.
And much the same rule applies for mathematics in many cases, which is why the “number of decimal places” matters or doesn’t. If it is “close enough”, it will still generally work.
Best line from the article.
Oh, and thanks for the post.
No, music is - that is mathematics + the emotion - the experiential world as seen through the prism of the ego
Uh, if we didn’t have any of the mathematics used to describe the world today, the human population of the world would be a few million who live in caves and eat bugs.
It is - unfortunately most Americans have had understanding of that language beat out of them by their commie school system, so we are better off sticking with a language that people here understand - perhaps the language used for text messages and twitter.
Many of the principles of mathematics contain “singularities”, points of infinity and points where something compresses into nothing. Neither of these have been found in the real world. It’s hard for me to consider that mathematics can completely describe the real world using conditions that don’t exist.