Re: Einstein and math

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
in other places.
"I have doubts that comtinuous field mechanics
ics really reflects
reality".


Once again, my point is made--tossing about quotes
without source. Meaningless.

Tom

"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.

Tom

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