Bob, I'm glad to think that you are in good health and good spirits, all things considered! I pray for you. Your question is or can be very central. So I...
I'm working towards a taxonomy of ambiguities, paradoxes and the ways we use variables. I found a book on that very topic by William Byers, "How Mathematicians...
This may not deal with ambiguity or paradox in math, but Gian Carlo Rota once said that math may be (is in fact?) as much what we think it is, as it is ...
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HaqueRiaz@...
Feb 5, 2012 10:27 pm
A math professor once told me: if I cannot explain in layman's terms what I am doing, I am not a mathematician. He went on to say further that formulae and...
I am a member, by the way, of AMS, and published a letter in NOTICES some years ago. Attached is a copy of my letter, "Moliere and Mathematics." Your comments ...
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HaqueRiaz@...
Feb 5, 2012 10:55 pm
Please do not complicate simplicity. Life is simple, living is simple, growing is simple, thinking is simple, reflecting is simple, building is simple, helping...
Riaz-ul, I wrote heartfully, but you seemed to have ignored my heartfulness, I suppose out of your lack of it. Why should I not ignore you? Simply! Andrius...
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HaqueRiaz@...
Feb 6, 2012 4:47 am
I was hoping that we would have a dialogue but if that was not mean to be, please do ignore me. Regards, Haque...
Carolyn Perz, I've worked briefly at a Catholic school and therefore I took the basic Virtus training for protecting children from sexual abuse, as required. I...
Michael, Thank you for updating me on your research! How would you phrase that as questions that you are seeking to answer? Andrius Andrius Kulikauskas,...
Andrius and All: My aim in this "math expressions for English (etc.) statements is interdisciplinary. I wish to bring together the arts and sciences,...
Julia, Kirby, Mokurai, Thank you for your great replies! http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/browse_thread/thread/5afd3fe17e37867a I checked out...
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Robert Lichtenbert
seekerofmeaning@...
Feb 20, 2012 4:06 am
Hi Andrius,      When I read this e-mail, I mistakenly thought that your response to me ended when you presented your ...
Michael Kanzanjian, I share your letters with Maria Droujkova's Math Future online group http://groups.google.com/group/mathfuture/ as well as with my own...
Andrius: Thank you. I need to read and reread this since math is not my field, hence my reaching out to mathematicians. I have a feeling you understand what I...
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Surya Rao Maturu
suryaraom@...
Feb 21, 2012 1:53 pm
andrius, hello.for an entirely different view of ----"mathematics"...."measurement"  etctra, kindly  read this : http://www.primitivism.com/number.htm for...
Surya, Thank you for joining us here! and sharing a link with Michael and us all. I recall from our list: http://www.worknets.org/wiki.cgi?Values that your...
Hi, I share a link to an article by urbanist/physicist/mathematician Nikos Salingaros in which he thoroughly critiques claims about the relevance of the...
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Charles Paidock
cpaidock@...
Feb 22, 2012 4:48 am
Dr. Krauss delineates three different kinds of nothingness...below. February 20, 2012 New York Times Science ...
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Surya Rao Maturu
suryaraom@...
Feb 22, 2012 6:22 am
andrius, many thanks for renewing my "benoit" contact ! ... equally valid, or are they not? Are you still asking that? Did you answer that to your...
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Robert Lichtenbert
seekerofmeaning@...
Feb 22, 2012 6:05 pm
Hi Charlie,      Thanks for sending us Dr. Krauss' views on nothing. They are totally speculative science fictions (not ...
Bob, Thank you for clarifying and also for your thoughts on Charles's article. I'll reply just briefly and hope to continue later. I'm preparing intensely...
Andrius and All: In the quick minute I have to respond, have you read Stewart Wolf's The Power of Clan, first published during the 60s? Andrius and Bob appear...
