thanks steven, i´ve read it.. i find this topic a very fascinating one:
also, "They may prefer to think of mathematical concepts merely
as idealisations of our physical world - and, on this view, the
mathematical world would be thought of as emerging from the
world of physical objects (figure 2 ) .
Now, this is not how I think of mathematics, nor, I believe, is
it how most mathematicians or mathematical physicists think about
the world. They think about it in a rather different way, as a structure
precisely governed according to timeless mathematical laws.
Thus, they prefer to think of the physical world, more appropriately,
as emerging out of the (“timeless”) world of mathematics,
as illustrated in figure 3."
in Space-time and Cosmology(1996)
by SIR ROGER PENROSE
http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/documents/Penrose96.pdf
cheers
On Wed, 11/17/10, Steven Vogel Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Steven Vogel Ph.D. <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Wikipedia Bionics
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 12:31 AM
> See...
>
> Wigner, Eugene P. (1960) The unreasonable effectiveness of
> mathematics in the natural sciences. Comm. in Pure and
> Appl. Math. 13: 1-14.
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