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To: The_Reader_David
What exactly do you think math is? Calculation? How did you get through graduate courses in mathematics without being disabused of that notion?

You're putting words in my mouth.

I majored in mathematical modeling (econometrics) and spent my career on Wall St. I am one of those who believe just about everything can be expressed mathematically.

What I was objecting to was the manner in which you were scolding a non-math poster like a cranky professor who insults students in class.

I probably shouldn't have said a word and apologize for butting in.

128 posted on 04/17/2015 8:33:37 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (WSC: The truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...)
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To: RoosterRedux

Well, I am a cranky professor, and if you did your graduate work in modelling, then you are forgiven for having missed the fact that most of what mathematicians do is prove things. (OTOH, I am worried that high school math no longer seems to contain a sufficient dose of proofs in the geometry course, so that a high school math teacher makes the claim that a little exercise in proof is “not math”.)


131 posted on 04/17/2015 8:45:08 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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