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I'd say what mathematicians do is "think". We call the sort of thinking mathematicians do "mathematics". I get through quite a bit of grad stats in any given we
by usgroup 7y ago
I'd say what mathematicians do is "think". We call the sort of thinking mathematicians do "mathematics". I get through quite a bit of grad stats in any given week and I'd say that what I'm not doing reading the computations of other mathematicians. I'm reading words in english, which try to explain concepts which are then sketched formulaically. I'm also reading proofs that are usually completed by a "mathematical" intuition and are very rarely if ever constructivist.
Maybe, that's just me busy thinking whilst the rest are busy computing :-)
- ukj 7y agoOnce you are done thinking your thought() function returns a result in the form of language, no? Or does thought() fail to halt?
- ukj 7y agoBy the way - this is rather circular and it begs questions. > We call the sort of thinking mathematicians do "mathematics" What kind of thinking do mathematicians do? Is it any different to the kind of thinking computer scientists do?