Timeline for "Mathematics is the science of the infinite" [closed]
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| Apr 20, 2019 at 22:40 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Dec 3, 2018 at 10:39 | vote | accept | Joseph O'Rourke | ||
| Dec 3, 2018 at 3:17 | history | closed |
Gerald Edgar Victor Protsak Andrés E. Caicedo Boris Bukh Andy Putman |
Opinion-based | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 2:26 | answer | added | Nik Weaver | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 1:50 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | I thought I read somewhere a traditional formula: the science of number and space (which I think has resonances going back to ancient Greece: the quaternity "arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy" seems very suggestive). Then there's Thurston, who seems more modern: “the theory of formal patterns” (see his essay "Proof and Progress..."). But permit me to remind that MO is not well-adapted to discussion-y questions, interesting though this one could be for a discussion. [IMHO Weyl's description sounds much too limited.] | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 0:58 | comment | added | Tom Copeland | So the underlying question in the light of other MO Qs you've asked is perhaps to what extent can continuum methods be legitimately supplanted by discrete methods--a reversal of the historical evolution of the calculus? | |
| Dec 3, 2018 at 0:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 3, 2018 at 0:02 | comment | added | Gerald Edgar | Voted to close... Primarily opinion-based. If we do this one, then we could ask about "Mathematics: The Science of Patterns" (Keith Devlin), and then "What is Mathematics?" (Courant & Robbins), and then "What is Mathematics Really?" (Reuben Hersch). So ... this is not a topic for a question here. Perhaps requesting references about "what is mathematics" may be OK. | |
| Dec 2, 2018 at 23:42 | history | asked | Joseph O'Rourke | CC BY-SA 4.0 |