On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 04:18:00PM -0400, Richard Hennessy wrote:
> Actually you are agreeing with me (and saying Mathematicians are
> hundreds of years ahead of their times). That is an interesting
> alternative to my point of view, which I admitted may be wrong. I
> guess that is possible??
I don't see it as being right or wrong. Many mathematical results sit
on the shelf for varying periods of time until someone discovers a use
for results previously seeming to have no practical application. My late
brother (a mathematician) used to say that physicists are smarter than
other scientists, but that mathematicians are smartest. :-) My personal
heroes are Godel and Turing. I suppose that John Von Neumann and Norbert
Wiener could be considered counter-examples to my brother's opinion.
> ------------Original Message------------
> From: dfeustel at mindspring.com
> To: "Richard Hennessy" <rvh2007 at comcast.net>
> Cc: "Maxima List" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
> Date: Wed, May-28-2008 8:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Maxima] Question
>
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:11:14PM -0400, Richard Hennessy wrote:
> > Does anyone agree with my perspective that math and CAS systems are
> > driven by Physics problems and (maybe) other exact science problems
> > that pop up during research. My whole point is that math by and of
> > itself would be useless if not for the applications.
> >
> The problem with that idea is that mathematical theories often precede
> (sometimes by hundreds of years) the applications which eventually use
> those theories.
>
> > ------------Original Message------------ From: "Richard
> > Hennessy"<rvh2007 at comcast.net> To: "Maxima List"
> > <maxima at math.utexas.edu> Date: Wed, May-28-2008 5:48 PM Subject:
> > [Maxima] Question
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know a mailing list like this one that is about Quantum
> > Mechanics (and numerical analysis) and also about using CAS
> > applications (like Maxima) to do the huge amounts of math involved?
> >
> > I have wanted many times to post my questions to this group but have
> > not since it is not really a QM list.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
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