May 22, 2005
Math Goes Postmodern
Definitional Drift: Math Goes Postmodern From the LA Times by Margaret Wertheim, the "Quark Soup" science columnist for LA Weekly. "Like so many other fields, mathematics is becoming less about some Platonic ideal of ultimate answers, and more a functional project of computational simulation and communal negotiation. Dare we say it: Math is becoming postmodern."
A good read about the difficulty of verifying mathematical proofs, and an article of interest to all of us who think about thinking.
Posted by ernie at May 22, 2005 08:27 AM
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