Timeline for What is "Data" involved in a mathematical construction?
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| Apr 16, 2013 at 0:00 | vote | accept | pre-kidney | ||
| Apr 15, 2013 at 6:54 | answer | added | Rami Luisto | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 5:33 | answer | added | Bruce Westbury | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 5:07 | answer | added | Todd Trimble | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 4:54 | answer | added | Angelo | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 4:37 | comment | added | Spice the Bird | Data tends to be some kind of n-tuple. For instance a group, $G$ is a triple, $(S,*,e)$ such that conditions hold. The "set" of data is a bit like a "subset" of some product of "sets". A construction then is like a function from this product to some other "set". | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 4:30 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | I think Chris is referring to the abstract mass noun version of data. Basically the information that you use as input for the construction. | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 4:19 | answer | added | Gerhard Paseman | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 4:17 | comment | added | pre-kidney | I guess you're saying that I'm overthinking things? In any case, "data" in the mathematician's sense doesn't seem to match the definition you're referencing: 1: factual information (as measurements or statistics) used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation <the data is plentiful and easily available — H. A. Gleason, Jr.> <comprehensive data on economic growth have been published — N. H. Jacoby> 2: information output by a sensing device or organ that includes both useful and irrelevant or redundant information and must be processed to be meaningful 3: information in numerical... | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 4:06 | comment | added | Chris Gerig | It means what Webster's dictionary says it means. | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 3:53 | history | asked | pre-kidney | CC BY-SA 3.0 |