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To: MUDDOG
"So how come we first "invent" an area of mathematics and only subsequently "discover" that it describers Nature?"

Late one night a policeman spots a slightly tipsy man bent over under a street light, looking for something. The policeman says "Have you lost something, sir ?" The man says "Yes, I lost my keys." The policeman say "Are you sure you lost them here?" The man says, "No, I lost them over there, (pointing into the dark) but the light is here."

161 posted on 01/07/2002 2:45:59 PM PST by Aurelius
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To: Aurelius
You can find stuff under the ODE existence/uniqueness theorem too.
165 posted on 01/07/2002 2:55:10 PM PST by MUDDOG
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