Category Archives: Mathematics

Foundational Mathematics and Physics?

Posted on September 5, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I reproduce the post written below to Peter’s Quantum Gravity Commentary because that basis of determinations supported by John Baez, introduces a new line of thinking, that as a layman, forces me to think about mathematics and physics in their … Continue reading →

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UV Fixed Point

Posted on September 2, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Clifford draws our attention to further talks here in his post and directs us to what Jacque Distler has to say. I must say this is a refreshing look with Jacques contribution to further the layman point of view. Such … Continue reading →

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Bridging the chasm between mathematics and human culture

Posted on August 7, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Thanks to Peter Woit for these kinds of links. As a lay person, to see this idea exemplified by such gatherings, closes the great divide. It is wonderful in a way, when one can see where these mathematics are really … Continue reading →

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The Black Hole Final State

Posted on July 24, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature. – Hermann Weyl It … Continue reading →

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Anomalistic Features of Gold Fish and Ant World?

Posted on July 3, 2005 by PlatoHagel

I was reading Mark Trodden’s blog called, “Orange Quark” for reading, and he pointed out the following article. In Praise of Hard Questions, by Tom Siegfried Geometric basis underlying science? I see this tendency of many to the Halls of … Continue reading →

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Michael Faraday

Posted on June 13, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Michael Faraday (September 22, 1791 – August 25, 1867) was a British scientist (a physicist and chemist) who contributed significantly to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. While it is always nice to see history in it’s developemental stages, it … Continue reading →

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Three Sphere

Posted on June 9, 2005 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 Bernhard Riemann once claimed: “The value of non-Euclidean geometry lies in its ability to liberate us … Continue reading →

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Music in Plato’s Academy

Posted on June 3, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Academy was a suburb of Athens, named after the hero Academos or Ecademos. The site was continuously inhabited from the prehistoric period until the 6th century A.D. During the 6th century B.C., one of the three famous Gymnasiums of Athens … Continue reading →

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Wunderkammern

Posted on June 1, 2005 by PlatoHagel

For me this is a wonderful view of abstraction, that had gone into model making, to help those less inclined to “the visonistic qualities of those same abstractions.” Shown here are the models in the mathematical wunderkammer located in the … Continue reading →

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Mathematical Enlightenment

Posted on May 28, 2005 by PlatoHagel

This enlightenment experience is a realization about the nature of the mind which entails recognizing it (in a direct, experiential way) as liminocentrically organized. The overall structure is paradoxical, and so the articulation of this realization will ‘transcend’ logic – … Continue reading →

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