Category Archives: Mathematics

Abraham Maslow and Peak Experience

Posted on April 18, 2006 by PlatoHagel

“The worst disease afflicting human kind is hardening of the categories.” – Artist Bob Miller. Well I having been watching the topics ofCategorically Not site created. I see such fine visitations by those who have ventured into the science, asking … Continue reading →

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On Gauss’s Day of Reckoning

Posted on April 15, 2006 by PlatoHagel

A famous story about the boy wonder of mathematics has taken on a life of its own –Brian Hayes Illustration by Theoni PappasIn a fanciful drawing done in the manner of a woodcut, the young Carl Friedrich Gauss receives instruction … Continue reading →

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Computer Language and Math Joined from Artistic Impressionism?

Posted on April 12, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Most people think of “seeing” and “observing” directly with their senses. But for physicists, these words refer to much more indirect measurements involving a train of theoretical logic by which we can interpret what is “seen.”- Lisa Randall Cubist Art: … Continue reading →

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Hyperbolic Geometry and it’s Rise

Posted on April 7, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Omar Khayyám the mathematician(6 april 2006 Wikipedia) He was famous during his lifetime as a mathematician, well known for inventing the method of solving cubic equations by intersecting a parabola with a circle. Although his approach at achieving this had … Continue reading →

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Intuitively Balanced: Induction and Deduction

Posted on March 30, 2006 by PlatoHagel

A VIEW OF MATHEMATICS Alain CONNES Most mathematicians adopt a pragmatic attitude and see themselves as the explorers of this mathematical world” whose existence they don’t have any wish to question, and whose structure they uncover by a mixture of … Continue reading →

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Ways IN which To Percieve Landscape?

Posted on March 20, 2006 by PlatoHagel

What a Cosmologist Wants from a String Theorist? Emotion versus Reason? 3.1 As Cytowic notes, Plato and Socrates viewed emotion and reason as in a kind of struggle, one in which it was vitally important for reason to win out. … Continue reading →

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Increase in Output of Inverse Square Law Calculatons ?

Posted on March 15, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Oh my poor layman brain. It hurts. String theory and the crisis in particle physics by Bert Schroer The third point of the list is perhaps the most serious one. A theory which has in more than 30 years been … Continue reading →

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A Professors Fate, or Encouragement to Continue?

Posted on March 12, 2006 by PlatoHagel

In regards to #72, as a layman, I continue to wonder. A VIEW OF MATHEMATICS by Alain CONNES Most mathematicians adopt a pragmatic attitude and see themselves as the explorers of this mathematical world” whose existence they don’t have any … Continue reading →

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The Z Machine

Posted on March 10, 2006 by PlatoHagel

There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.— Nikolai Lobachevsky Sandia’s Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin Z’s energies in these experiments raised several questions. First, … Continue reading →

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Have we seen (strange) quark matter?

Posted on March 7, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Well the very idea that such a thing could exist, has been part of the evolving information I had been going through. To be lead to the understanding, of what new Physics would emerge fromm cosmological and collidial events. That … Continue reading →

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