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What 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 ho
by dinkumthinkum 4y ago
What 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.