Re: Einstein and math

On Jun 21, 2:54 pm, "zzbun...@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <zzbun...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Jun 21, 12:11 pm, "T.H. Ray" <thray...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Where math is certain it is abstract entity. Where it
applies to the
real world it is not exact.

Mitch Raemsch

Do you understand what Einstein meant by that?  Do
you know where he said it?  Do you even know
the exact wording?  

   It is simple. What he meant was what he said in other places.
   "I have doubts that comtinuous field mechanics really reflects
reality".

Z? Do you mean he was thinking of quantized field mechanics?



"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,
they are not certain; and as far as they are certain,
they do not refer to reality." ~ Einstein, "Geometry
and Experience," 1921; an essay that expands on an address
he delivered to the Prussian Academy of Sciences that
year.

I am sure I am not the only member of this forum
weary of seeing Einstein quotes tossed about
meaninglessly, without source or attribution.  "Geometry
and Experience" is a centerpiece of Einstein's philosophy
of space and time. He used it to explain how the
continuum can be derived from the experience of three
dimensional geometry, and concludes, "My only aim today
has been to show that the human faculty of visualisation
is by no means bound to capitulate to non-Euclidean
geometry."

That is to say, while the mathematical models of
geometry are certain, the experience of geometry (in
the deep sense of an Einstein, at least) reflects a
certain experience of reality not yet captured in the
model--though Einstein tried to do so until the day
he died.

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