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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Ah philosophy :) great! Math is 100% abstract and has a very weak relation to reality/the physical world surrounding us. Circle is a concept, diameter is a concept, circumference is a concept. They all relate to each other in the same abstract, theoretical level. In the 'real world' there are no absolute circles, spheres, lines etc. Only things that we may choose to call circles or spheres because we feel that these concepts describe these physical objects. We may use math to generalize, classify and describe the physical world but we can never use the physical world to describe math. It's a very one way relationship. [url]http://xkcd.com/435/[/url] [quote] [b]binary said:[/b] Life = harmony = mathematics [/quote] I won't say that this is entirely wrong since I don't believe in randomness, I only believe in the incomprehensible illusion of randomness but I think that life and mathematics find a much better connection through [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory]chaos[/url] and not harmony. At least that's what scientists have chosen to call it. Loading...
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