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Schopenhauer-as-modern
« on: October 05, 2020, 07:55:12 am »
I scribbled something interesting in my "diary/notebook" : Would "modern mathematics" (last couple hundred years, since around Schopenhauer's era, Schopenhauer-as-modern) exist without the coffee bean?  What is the relationship between coffee and mathematics?   What about the relationship between tobacco and mathematics?

The coffee bean was imported from where?  The classic mathematics, the ancient roots of mathematics is from the east, from India through what I will clumsily call Arabia.  Whatever formalized into "the calculus" was more organizational and notational than earth-shattering transformational.  maybe it had more to do with access to coffee and paper.  Where were the trees taken from?

We all retun to the great mother earth.  our bones and all the paper return to the earth.  Does mathematics exist outside of the world as representation?
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modern as "abstract" | "rigorous" | "axiomatic"

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Schopenhauer as system philosopher (he packaged his thought as a reflection of the truth we all stand in, breaking the world into will and idea) seems to me to be different than Schopenhauer as essayist, aphorist, conversationalist.  His so-called "popular" essays, taken as a whole, informally reflect the characteristics of his reflections more liberally, less systematically.
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This word, 'modern', has significance not only in C++, but also in "Modern Mathematics" of the educational math wars ... not to mention modernism and postmodernism of the art/literary academics.

So, for what it's worth:  Schopenhauer-as-modern.  This is our era, the one we are still in, after the introduction of a great deal more notation.  I detect the attempt to systemetize, legitamitize ... to reach the limits of reason and rationality?  Beyond the bounds of history?  Eternal organic structure of thought?
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Re: Schopenhauer-as-modern
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2020, 05:36:55 pm »
Over the last couple of years I have developed a real taste for mathematics. Back in 2004-05 I read a book called Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck. In those days, I was a lot into psychology books .Looking back, I don't think the book is worth much but I do remember one thing in the book about which I thought a great deal then. The author somewhere in the book says that most children who manage to do well in life are found to have had a nurturing home while they were growing up. Once one is an adult its very difficult to undo the damage done in the childhood.

It maybe that my memory is playing tricks with me, but I think I can recall thinking along the line that I probably would never be able to develop sound foundations as regards mathematics and that remained true for a long time. However, at that point of time I never factored in coming across a man of your caliber. The last two years have been fruitful-I have studied a great deal of maths .And while I clearly have a very long way ahead of me, at least, I know that if I can do it for two years continually, then I might be able to do it for the next twenty too.

I do not want any medals for my efforts or even a formal certificate, however, I would very much like to continue to study mathematics,(to borrow your phrase), till the wheels fall off.

Take care ,Herr Hauser.

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