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[Andy Wootton]

Peter Oliver wrote:

> People think maths is all about "sums", because that's what they did 
> in maths lessons at school, and that more advanced maths must be about 
> harder sums.

In my first job I worked with a guy who read maths at Cambridge. He said 
that mathematics is an arbitrarily defined set of rules applied to a set 
of abstract symbols.
This leads to the conclusion that any apparent relationship between 
mathematics and the real world is only a belief system.

Experimental data proves nothing because it is statistically 
insignificant  in an infinite universe. We might just live in a lucky bit.

I find this strangely reasuring, though I always have to stop thinking 
about using stats to prove that maths doesn't mean anything before my 
brain explodes.

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