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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #30 on: December 12, 2021, 02:16:36 pm »
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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #31 on: March 18, 2022, 03:40:05 pm »
While exploring a giant black notebook of around 1000 very large blank pages, on page 2 I found a quote from Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation, Volume 1, p.54, which resonates with NJ Wildberger's Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry:

If, therefore, we want to have abstract knowledge of space-relations, we must first translate them into time-relations, that is, numbers.  For this reason, arithmetic alone, and not geometry, is the universal theory of quantity, and geometry must be translated into arithmetic if it is to be communicable, precisely definite, and applicable in practice. 

It is true that a spatial-relation as such may also be thought in the abstract, for example, "The sine increases with the angle," but if the quantity of this relation is to be stated, number is required.  This necessity for space with its three dimensions to be translated into time with only one dimension, if we wish to have an abstract knowledge (i.e., a rational knowledge, and no mere intuition or perception) of space-relations -- this necessity is what makes mathematics so difficult.


This is both sublime and profound, no?
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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #32 on: April 18, 2022, 12:31:08 am »
For Herr Hauser:
Discussing Gauss-
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« Reply #33 on: April 30, 2022, 01:47:11 pm »

You know, in Circus when they first bring a baby elephant they tie one of its legs with one end of a rope, the other end is tied to a stake in the ground.

The baby elephant is wild. It tugs and tugs but the rope the too strong for its small leg.It cannot get away. It gets used to its subjugation.

The baby elephants grows up fast. They continue you use the same rope. But the elephant believes it's hopeless to try to free itself-it already tried innumerable times when it was a baby-it does not know that all it need to go is to give the rope a tug and it would break.

You are the one who told the Elephant that it is not a baby Elephant anymore.

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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #34 on: May 01, 2022, 07:53:55 am »
Thanks Holden.  I am amazed at the book suggestion, Lust for Life.  What an intensely emotional read this is.  I was up through the night reading it aloud.  I am savouring it, going on many tangents.

I feel the ghost of Van Gogh (the black sheep) is here with us!

I had been ignorant about how tender and authentic this man had been.  He did not wish to spend his life studying triangles and circles.  He actually cared about the poor and disadvantaged.  He seems to have lived some kind of Hero's Journey.  I have to say that I am genuinely impressed with Herr Van Gogh.  More now than ever!

Awe-struck, really.   You must know me better than those in my monkey-sphere.  You most certainly know and respect me more than my kin and "extended family" - that's for damn sure. 

Philosophical Friend, you are Pure Gold.  I am glad that Don Raul is also protective of you and encouraging you to get to know the Lion Within you.

May you hear it roar!



"Home"


[Jim:] Oh, God!
[Californian Weirdo:] Sole has no eyes.

Could be Jerusalem, or it could be Cairo
Could be Berlin, or it could be Prague
Could be Moscow, could be New York
Could be Llanelli, and it could be Warrington
Could be Warsaw, and it could be Moose Jaw
Could be Rome
Everybody got somewhere they call home
When they overrun the defenses
A minor invasion put down to expenses
Will you go down to the airport lounge?
Will you accept your second class status?
A nation of waitresses and waiters
Will you mix their martinis?
Will you stand still for it?
Or will you take to the hills?

It could be clay and it could be sand
Could be desert
Could be a tract of arable land
Could be a house, could be a corner shop
Could be a cabin by a bend in the river
Could be something your old man handed down
Could be something you built on your own
Everybody got something he calls home

When the cowboys and Arabs draw down
On each other at noon
In the cool dusty air of the city boardroom
Will you stand by a passive spectator
Of the market dictators?
Will you discreetly withdraw
With your ear pressed to the boardroom door?
Will you hear when the lion within you roars?
Will you take to the hills?

Will you stand, will you stand for it?
Will you hear, ohhhh! ohhh! when the lion within you roars?

Could be your father and it could be your mother
Could be your sister, could be your brother
Could be a foreigner, could be a Turk
Could be a cyclist out looking for work. Norman
Could be a king, could be the Aga khan
Could be a Vietnam vet with no arms and no legs
Could be a saint, could be a sinner
Could be a loser or it could be a winner
Could be a banker, could be a baker
Could be a Laker, could be Kareem Abdul Jabar
Could be a male voice choir
Could be a lover, could be a fighter
Could be a super heavyweight, or it could be something lighter
Could be a cripple, could be a freak
Could be a wop, gook, geek
Could be a cop, could be a thief
Could be a family of ten living in one room on relief
Could be our leaders in their concrete tombs
With their tinned food and their silver spoons
Could be the pilot with God on his side
Could be the kid in the middle of the bomb sight
Could be a fanatic, could be a terrorist
Could be a dentist, could be a psychiatrist
Could be humble, could be proud
Could be a face in the crowd
Could be the soldier in the white cravat
Who turns the key in spite of the fact
That this is the end of the cat and mouse
Who dwelt in the house
Where the laughter rang and the tears were spilt
The house that Jack built
Where the laughter rang and the tears were spilt
The house that Jack built
Bang, bang, shoot, shoot
White gloved thumb, Lord thy will be done
He was always a good boy his mother said
He'll do his duty when he's grown, yeah
Everybody's got someone they call home

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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #35 on: May 02, 2022, 12:58:46 am »
No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.-Plato
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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #36 on: April 28, 2023, 02:48:03 pm »
Most important transcendental functions—logs, exponentials, and the related circular and hyperbolic functions—are obtained by integration and inversion from algebraic functions, and fairly simple algebraic functions.
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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #37 on: April 29, 2023, 12:25:53 pm »
We are not baby elephants anymore.  The Wizard of Oz has been exposed as a charlatan. 

There is so much pain built into the fibers of our being.  It's no wonder so many find themselves sobbing and groaning.  I find myself wanting to talk my mother through this life over the phone, but we - each of us - is on our own, essentially. 

Can we reverse-engineer our own minds?  Is it possible to study our own mental faculties for so long that we might develop the ability to challenge some of the hard-wired programming in us, like the intense anxiety.   The Panic Anxiety is how "Nature" compels us not to suffocate, among other things; but it goes overboard to the point we are paralyzed by our own panic. 

Is there a way for us not to take this lifeworld (Lebenswelt) so seriously?
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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #38 on: May 23, 2023, 02:15:07 pm »
Newton often calculated expressions upto 68 decimal places.Manually.
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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #39 on: May 25, 2023, 01:27:35 pm »
Invito patre sidera verso  (“I  study  the stars against my father’s will”).
Bernoulli
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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #40 on: June 01, 2023, 01:45:22 pm »
Klein would have said Geometry is the study of those properties of figures that remain invariant under a group of transformations.
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« Reply #41 on: June 24, 2023, 03:24:54 pm »
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« Reply #42 on: June 26, 2023, 08:51:13 am »
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« Reply #43 on: June 27, 2023, 02:48:36 pm »
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Re: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Mathematics
« Reply #44 on: June 27, 2023, 03:00:49 pm »
I don't know why I bother concerning myself with the value of the Modified Calculator Program in Stroustrup Textbook C++PPP that I built while possessed by "The Holy Ghost."

I mention this "Big Integer Calculator" in the thread "On Laziness" just to drive home to point, since the work and explanations (human-readable comments) in the source code show evidence of anything but "laziness" ---- while one is supposed to believe the LIE that someone who refuses to take one of the increasingly shiittier jobs in this world of redundant shopping malls, redundant personalities that the masses pick up from the celebrities they seem to worship.

I feel like there are Dark Forces working in my life, using my love for my mother against me in order to destroy me as a "cultural entity."

The lack of any real interest in the kinds of things I was concerned with leaves me cold, where I must muster courage and stubbornness so as to disallow this society's Indifference to infect me with it's "practical thinking" - always of dollars and cents, always predetermined by systemic stupidity.   These environments of 10,000 rules are getting old.

I'm going through changes ...




My mother and this stupid society has really been messing with my heart and mind for too long now, and I am fed up.   So, I am trying to bring some order to the chaos, by trying to locate my "brain children" - I will not hide the url as I want to encourage myself to remener where the FUCK my work is:

https://github.com/Gorticide/PPP_LABPPP_LAB

https://github.com/Gorticide/PPP_LAB/tree/master/calculators

https://github.com/Gorticide/PPP_LAB/blob/master/calculators/integer_calculator2.cpp

The Fraction Class can also be found at:

https://github.com/Gorticide/Complex/blob/master/solve/fraction.cpp

https://github.com/Gorticide/Complex/blob/master/solve/fraction.h
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