Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:02:56 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy Message-ID: <20010128.1025600@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <14963.26492.324702.290472@guru.mired.org> References: <14963.8033.752142.149320@guru.mired.org> <20010127.20140200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <14963.13797.116165.382738@guru.mired.org> <20010127.22394200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <14963.21950.110019.468965@guru.mired.org> <20010127.23473800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <14963.26492.324702.290472@guru.mired.org>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 1/28/01, 1:27:40 AM, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> wrote regarding Re:=20 OT again: Re: hexidecimal literacy: > I tend to prefer discrete mathematics myself - I never did like the > way continuous systems feel around the edges. Yeah, I know - thats the= > degenerate case for those systems. > Just to do a complete topic change, have you read: > http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Hamming.html > The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics, R.W. Hamming > http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html > The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural > Sciences, Eugene Wigner > http://www.cfcl.com/~jef/effectiveness_mathematics.html > Effectiveness of Mathematics, Jef Raskin > I just had them pointed out to me, but they contain things that any > mathematician - or physicist - should think about. Yup. Mathematics (< manthano ;-) works... unreasonably well. "Those who don't use math to their advantage, they will see it=20 employed against them" (Herbart) By the way, I have found "Pi in the ski. Counting, Thinking, and=20 Being" by J.D.Barrow an interesting reading. Unfortunately, it is not=20 so much "explanatory/introductory" as the author would like it to be.=20 I am afraid one can only really appreciate it if one has a *solid*=20 mathematical background. Salvo (<gasp> I should go really to bed instead of chatting :-)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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