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So Ramanujan with no formal training in mathematics was really surrounded by advanced education of mathematics and had no original ideas? I feel if more people
by dinkumthinkum 4y ago
So Ramanujan with no formal training in mathematics was really surrounded by advanced education of mathematics and had no original ideas? I feel if more people studied philosophy they may discover how problematic these reductions are.
- donatj 4y agoMath isn't a human invention at all. It's the discovery of the nature of the universe and an expression of the world around us.
- dinkumthinkum 4y agoWhat does that even mean? Mathematical ideas are ideas. The notion of continued fractions is not just an expression of the world around us. This is basically hokum. The point is that human intelligence utilized original thoughts in the case of Ramanujan.
- donatj 4y agoOne of your three sheep is black. 1/3 - that's a fraction, a idealized representation of the real world. Now you take that concept and do it again over and over ad infinitum. That's not a magical invention that has no bearing on the world around us. That's just an expression of real world taken to its logical conclusion. It was not invented from a vacuum, it was invented from the input of the world around us. What is "hokum" is the idea that the human mind would somehow come up with meaningful output without meaningful input to seed it.