Tag Archives: Mathematics

Intuitively Compelling

Posted on May 10, 2006 by PlatoHagel

While it does appear that Einstein has indeed given us a paradigm which was indeed world-changing and affected everyone, how well might he have known himself? He was “driven,” as to the” focus and outcome” of GR’s growth? Yet, being … Continue reading →

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Concepts of the Fifth Dimension

Posted on April 23, 2006 by PlatoHagel

“Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs, in some manner, I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensionality, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to … Continue reading →

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What a Good String Theorist Should Know?

Posted on April 22, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Arthur MillerEinstein and Schrödinger never fully accepted the highly abstract nature of Heisenberg’s quantum mechanics, says Miller. They agreed with Galileo’s assertion that “the book of nature is written in mathematics”, but they also realized the power of using visual … Continue reading →

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Purpose of the Compton Lecture Series

Posted on April 20, 2006 by PlatoHagel

April 8The 63rd Compton Lecture Series, 2006 through June 3, 2006, 11:00 a.m. Sean at cosmic variance point to this series of lectures that are being presented each year and in this series the entitled is called, “String Theory: With … Continue reading →

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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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