Re: The Nature of Mathematics - a plea for help
From: Eugene Shubert (http://www.everythingimportant.org)
Date: 11/07/04
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Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:24:32 -0600
"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> Eugene Shubert wrote:
>> Yes, I am appealing to a community of mathematicians as the
>> intellectual superiors of physicists.
>
> Really? A mathematician is constrained only by internal or logical
> consistency. A physicist is not only contrained by consistency but
> by empirical correctness.
If physicists were constrained by rationality and consistency, it
would be a marvelous achievement. Unfortunately, the google
newsgroup archives confirm that many physicists are driven
by intense bigotry and ignorance.
Eugene Shubert
http://www.everythingimportant.org/relativity/special.pdf
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