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Am 11.12.2010 13:14, schrieb Orchid XP v8:
> By contrast, this paper seems to assert that mathematics is about
> constructing abstractions and building theories out of them as a matter
> of creativity. Obviously I've never seen any cutting-edge mathematics
> (and I never will), but I've always thought of mathematics looking at
> interesting systems and discovering their properties, out of simple
> human curiosity. Certainly that's why *I* explore mathematics; it's the
> desire to know everything about everything.
... despite there existing proof that this desire is insatisifiable
(which I find an interesting thing to know, too) - and not only in this
world, but also in any imaginable one (another interesting thing) except
for pretty boring worlds.
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