"One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above other sciences, is its propositions are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts....
"How can it be that mathematics being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate for the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?
"In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this: as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality ...."
P.232-233, IDEAS AND OPINIONS by Albert Einstein "Geometry and experience" (1954, 1982)
IS MATHEMATICS, WHICH IS ALSO EXHIBITED IN HUMAN BABIES, IN PLANTS, AND IN ANIMALS, MERELY A "PRODUCT OF THE HUMAN MIND" AS THE GREAT THEORETICAL PHYSICIST ALBERT EINSTEIN HAS JUST STATED AND POSTULATED?
I SAY "NO!" MATHEMATICS IS FROM GOD, IT BEING INNATE IN LIFE AND BEING!
Saturday, November 8, 2014
IS MATHEMATICS FROM GOD OR MAN?
IS MATHEMATICS FROM GOD OR MAN?
"One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above other sciences, is its propositions are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts....
"How can it be that mathematics being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate for the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?
"In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this: as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality ...."
P.232-233, IDEAS AND OPINIONS by Albert Einstein "Geometry and experience" (1954, 1982)
IS MATHEMATICS, WHICH IS ALSO EXHIBITED IN HUMAN BABIES, IN PLANTS, AND IN ANIMALS, MERELY A "PRODUCT OF THE HUMAN MIND" AS THE GREAT THEORETICAL PHYSICIST ALBERT EINSTEIN HAS JUST STATED AND POSTULATED?
I SAY "NO!" MATHEMATICS IS FROM GOD, IT BEING INNATE IN LIFE AND BEING!
"One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above other sciences, is its propositions are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of all other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts....
"How can it be that mathematics being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate for the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things?
"In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this: as far as the propositions of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality ...."
P.232-233, IDEAS AND OPINIONS by Albert Einstein "Geometry and experience" (1954, 1982)
IS MATHEMATICS, WHICH IS ALSO EXHIBITED IN HUMAN BABIES, IN PLANTS, AND IN ANIMALS, MERELY A "PRODUCT OF THE HUMAN MIND" AS THE GREAT THEORETICAL PHYSICIST ALBERT EINSTEIN HAS JUST STATED AND POSTULATED?
I SAY "NO!" MATHEMATICS IS FROM GOD, IT BEING INNATE IN LIFE AND BEING!