Re: The Concept of Speed in Mathematics
From: r.e.s. (r.s_at_ZZmindspring.com)
Date: 01/27/05
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:59:06 GMT
<matt271829-news@yahoo.co.uk> wrote ...
> Maybe I missed a page, but I wasn't aware of ANY concept of "speed" in
> mathematics. Speed is a physical concept. Sure, it can be MODELLED in
> mathematics, but that's a different matter...
Speed, as in the "fast" of fast-growing number-theoretical functions,
evidently has a meaning in mathematics, whether Platonic or otherwise.
(To a Platonist, of course, Goodstein's function, say, is fast-growing
in a way that has nothing to do with temporality. E.g., see
www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maadb/research/seminars/online/fgfut/fgfut19.html)
--r.e.s.
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