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I too have a problem with continuous math. However I have to wonder if we didn't have our senses, would our imaginations be discrete or continuous?
by dcow 9y ago
I too have a problem with continuous math. However I have to wonder if we didn't have our senses, would our imaginations be discrete or continuous?
- jonsen 9y agoDiscontinuous, probably.
- randcraw 9y agoOr concrete, as suggested by Knuth, Graham, and Patashnik in their book, "Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science". https://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Computer-Science/dp/0201558025 https://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Mathematics-Foundation-Compu...
- daveslash 9y agoThe "Concrete Math" book title is a play on words - combining continuous and discrete. From the preface: "When DEK taught Concrete Mathematics for the first time.... [h]e announced that, contrary to the expectations of some of his colleagues, he was _not_ going to teach the Theory of Aggregates, not Stone's Embedding Theorem, not even the Stone-Cech compactification. (Several students from the civil engineering department got up and quietly left the room). [Edit]: Typo/Spelling fix.
- AstralStorm 9y agoNeurons themselves are working on physics at not quite quantum scales, so probably a good model would be timewise continuous stochastic.